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Zaflis t1_j229y8i wrote

Reply to comment by MrZwink in 11 years ago Michio Kaku talked about mind upload into Machine - Big Think by keghi11

It doesn't have to be 100% identical transfer to be fully recognizable by others and the person him/herself. Also i won't be using the word copy because when you "move" a file the original is lost. So is the brain in this case. If we talk about it as a copy then it's not an improved "you" but a new entity entirely. Ideally you could still think uninterrupted during the transfer process, in all points from 0% to 100%. Needless to say for science being able to do that all is still too far in the future.

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MrZwink t1_j22lfx8 wrote

This is exactly what heisenbergs uncertainty principle prevents.

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Zaflis t1_j2323rb wrote

You are now assuming that every atom has to be copied with the exact same position and speed or something? But that is not correct. When you copy a limb, say a human arm to another person, it will still work even if it's different in a lot of ways. Accuracy can be improved but the copy is not, nor need to be too precise. And when you go into the computer representation, the format of data is already drastically different.

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MrZwink t1_j23ugwm wrote

An arm is not concious. If you cant copy the processes going on in the brain you cant copy the consciousness.

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Zaflis t1_j24qfid wrote

You only need to copy the stored information, not anything that is being moved at the time. Like harddrives and RAM but anything that CPU is processing now is irrelevant, if we compare RAM to the short term memory that changes more aggressively than long term memory.

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MrZwink t1_j24s80m wrote

The brain doesn't work like that. It's constantly exchanging information, and forming new connections. There is no "off" switch.

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