What Happens to You if You Upload Your Mind to a Computer?

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You wouldn’t download a Toyota Corolla

Wendoverproductions

Theoretically there is a possible way of "uploading" your mind to a computer, that doesn't just create a digital copy of your mind while your own mind is still stuck in your body.

If you could build an artificial, self-replicating cell that mimic braincells and is designed to replace your biological braincells as they die and find some sort of treatment that prevents your body from rejecting these artificial cells, then eventually your brain would grow to become a computer, and philosophically speaking it would still be your own mind that inhabits this computer since your original biological brainfunctions never actually ceased but slowly adapted to using artificial braincells instead of biological ones.

Pulling this off however would be tricky to say the least. Not only do we need much more sophisticated engineering in nanotechnology to build individual cells out of non-organic compounds that are also compatible with human braincells, you would also need much more deeper knowledge of the human immune system in order to prevent the body from rejecting the foreign cells.

Also, this is only based on the little theoretical knowledge we have of how the mind works. It's hard to be absolutely sure that our real mind and self would actually adapt to these braincells or if the mind would simply retreat further and further into the remaining biological cells, until eventually you'd run out of biological cells and your mind would die, but other people might not even notice since the artifical cells might be so well designed at mimicry of regular brain cells that no one else would be able to tell the difference.

So before allowing the artificial cells to "overtake" the biological functions, you'd have to devise a method of testing if the artificial cells are actually working in conjunction with other braincells rather than just simulating brainfunctions artificially. However that might be the easy part since you could basically just implant these artificial cells in the parts of the brain that governs other bodily functions than the mind and see if the surrounding neurons connected to the artificial cell are "firing" or not as they would normally.

sevenproxies

*If it's an accurate copy of me, it crashes.*

CobaltBob

"It would take 20, 000 TB of information to store a fully detailed map of the human brain"

Depends on the brain, I know some dumb mf'ers out there

blacktimhoward

What if we uploaded a toyota corolla in a laptop?

darthvader

Imagine how many Toyota Corollas u could buy with ur computer mind

marquizo

*Yeah but what happens if we encounter malware?*

JustinY.

Omg he’s sponsored by assasins creed lol

SuperBeybladestar

I've never been more confused in my life and never heard the word 'upload' so many times.

galacticpulsegaming

Next video topic should be "what happens if you steal a sith's doritos".

darthvader

What happens if you upload your mind in a computer... ON A PLANE

thenotflatearth

The thing about uploading my conscience is that I will be dead. I will still be in the endless nothing. The robot or AI would be alive but I won't.

addisonq

You'll spend the rest of your days on YouTube, never escaping it's dark, digital grasp...

Wait that's what's happening to me already. Nevermind

crimsoncorsair