Can You Upload Your Mind & Live Forever?

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The desire to be free from the limits of the human experience is as old as our first stories. We exist in an endless universe, only bound by the laws of physics and yet, our consciousness is trapped in mortal machines made of meat. With the breathtaking explosion of innovation and progress, for the first time the concept of leaving our flesh piles behind and uploading our minds into a digital utopia seems possible. Even like the logical next step on our evolutionary ladder.

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[TheProGamerJay]

F to all the people that upload to the cloud & get stuck at a 99% loading screen for eternity

[thejesuschrist]

Brain water to consciousness wine, amen.

[garchompkills]

One intriguing thing that isn't talked about is would an uploaded mind have a perfect memory. Our memory as it is isn't very reliable seeing as how everytime we access a memory, it changes a little bit. Hundreds of recalls later, it could look nothing like what actually happened. A digital mind could have access to recordings of events they experienced and essentially store them as read-only.

[liamhigbee]

I’ll put my immortal Brian on pause for 10, 000 years until half life 3 is out

[fshyspace]

“The brain is the most complex organism and it deserves it’s own video” -*The Brain*

[CoxTH]

"The brain is the most complicated organic structure known."
That's what a brain would say.

[TheRedneckGamer]

One of the other implications of a mind upload is the notion that you aren't really limited to a single copy. Which, as has been explored in the book series "we are bob", you could feasibly make a functional von neumann probe, or a "single" person running an entire business or industry of some kind merely by making multiple copies of themselves and a lot of other weirdness.

[Pacowaka]

I'm suprised not a lot of people mentioned the game SOMA. It explores this topic really well :D

[tropixx]

can we just appreciate the fact that something with THIS amount of quality is free

[mrthink]

Everyone gansta until the internet disconnects

[h.a.]

There's a shortstory by Stanislav Lem from his "Ijon Tichy" series, where Ijon is visited by a person that has invented immortality.
This guy, named Decantor, explains that after decades of studying, he has finally managed to create a way to transfer a human conciousness onto a thumbdrive-like device, that will contain that soul forever.

As the story progresses, we learn that he used the method on his wife, however since the space on the device is limited, it doesn't allow communication with the outside world, the mind is basically suspended alone in a giant void. _Forever._

Ijon is then so disgusted and horrified, that he offers all his belongings to obtain that device to smash it, so the woman can be released from her horrific jail.
He eventually persuades Decantor to see how terrible his creation is and they destroy the device together.

[threethree]

Brain architecture is so complicated that it made me think more questions after watching this video...

[EdgarRoock]

“If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.” - Emerson Pugh

[joshm]

7:54
“humans are horrible at predicting the pace of progress”
this seems ironic knowing that this was sponsored by cyber punk

[lemonlizard]

it's both comforting and upsetting that in our lifetime we likely won't figure out how the consciousness works

[ciaranm]

One thing I've always wondered is if it would be me if my brain were transferred to something else. Like they've mapped out my brain, my personality is there, my memory is there, but is it more or a copy of me? In the sense, we experience our lives in a continuous stream ie we experience a consistent passage of time. Would we then continue on that stream when we transfer, or would it be a clone? To everyone else in your life it'd be like you're still there, but it's more like a clone, while the you that is you faded to black and died. How would anyone know?
If I recall, they deal with this in the show/comic Invincible when the Robot transfers his mind into a new body, he experiences the same fear I just talked about. It's creepy but interesting.

[Asiasushja]

Cyberpunk couldn't hope for better advertisement

[phillydcinematics]

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[minty]

Here’s my opinion in a nutshell: If you transfer your mind to the digital world it whould’t be you, it whould just be a copy of yourself with the same memories, the digital yourself will remember your life as his own and think he is you. But he isn’t he is just a mere copy.