Can You Upload Your Brain to a Computer?

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Writing: Steven Rix
Editing: Alex Brown

[xodan]

Everyone gangsta until there's a power cut

[homelessjeff]

imagine your chilling at the beach watching the sunset in a digital world, and suddenly an ad for raid shadow legends blocks your vision and a voice in your head says "buy earth premium for only 129.99 a month to remove ads"

[sjdstorm]

Imagine being stuck in VR and get tortured forever in there since time works differently. Literal hell

[LarryNathanielPhoto]

"Nobody wants Mark Zuckerberg as their overlord." That really hit home. 😆

[tristanruusmaa]

We could make a copy of a human brain but nobody is even close to understanding what consciousness is

[briandering]

It will all be 'fun and games' till someone trips over the power cable.

[ackantha]

Original title: "Could the entire human race live inside a computer?"

[Takedownman]

The problem is, yes it is you, but not you. I would still exist, yet the me here and now wouldn't be. Only memories, I would still be dead. So in reality, I wouldn't live forever.

[LekkerNootje]

The "look how ever you want" with the clip of people getting your moustache, cracked me up hahaha

[astrid..]

Arran’s got the jump on us—he’s been uploading his brain to YouTube for years.

[rorythomson]

Being conscious but trapped inside a limited computer software construct sounds like a special kind of hell.

[friedsugar]

In India, a ton of sages we're attempting to live forever whilst some were attempting to break from the cycle of rebirth. Weird world, we reside in.

[vasekfrydl]

The Human Race: Becomes a part of a computer.
Blackout: Hello there, you didn't see ME coming did you.

[ErikGauthierDrums]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think about whether they should" - Dr Ian Malcolm

[taavi]

Wow, Thoughty2 has been on fire the last year.
I remember there were times when I had to wait for his video for weeks.

[Bigfoot_With_Extra_Stuff]

Plot twist: You've been inside a computer this whole time

[philiplavere]

The smartest and most thoughty take on this ludicrous concept I have seen yet. I especially liked that someone finally touched on the reality of other organs in the body and their connection to the emotional 'self'. Kurzweil might start by seeing if his brain could contain him without his body, before he tries relying solely on it's contents to duplicate himself.

[patrickmcdonald]

Alright, it's got to be said..."Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should!"-Ian Malcolm

[elitedestroyer]

I don't mind as long as the simulation gods regularly update my manga.

[random_acuity]

The irony being, we might already be living in a computer.