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I have fantasies about extracting data out of this brain and recreating this man as a simulation. Could it somehow be possible?
by xwdv 3y ago
I have fantasies about extracting data out of this brain and recreating this man as a simulation. Could it somehow be possible?
- chankstein38 3y agoThat would be incredible. My intuition is that at this point it's probably so degraded that's not possible since the neurons would have shrunk along with the rest of the brain and are likely so thin and brittle they aren't reliable anymore. That said, I'm just a developer sitting here at my desk not a brain scientist so that's probably not a very useful guess lol
- yreg 3y agoWe would already need Clarketech to revive any dead brain. If we are entertaining theoretically possible future tech: Provided there are enough neurons and it would be possible to reconstruct their connections, we could scan them, create a custom built model for the rest of the brain (the part that is missing/unrecoverable), plug it in and simulate it. Consciousness debate aside, we might be able to recover some memories from it and talk to it. But my guess is that all the data is lost already.
- PaulHoule 3y agoIt would make a good story. I imagine if someone did pull that one off they'd have to blend in data from other people and maybe even what they knew historically about the time to make up for information that is degraded and lost. Some of the better sci-fi books that have ressurection as a theme are https://www.amazon.com/gods-foxcroft-David-Levy/dp/B000GR593U https://www.amazon.com/gods-foxcroft-David-Levy/dp/B000GR593... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerando
- jbaber 3y agoI second Accelerando, especially for its weirdness. As the blurb on the front cover says, it's "a bit flawed and a lot of fun".
- swayvil 3y agoIs the brain the source or is it just a relay? Hard to tell. Occam suggests the prior. But by that logic there are little people living inside my tv.
- xwdv 3y agoCould be the relay for collapsing probabilities from some external source of larger probabilities.
- echelon 3y agoThis needs the ancient Herculaneum scroll treatment. Even though cells and extracellular mass die, bleb, apoptose, desiccate, etc., there should still be an overwhelming amount of signal there for future societies to unpack. We shouldn't limit ourselves to our current understanding and techniques. As impossible as it sounds, I'm still fond of the fanciful idea that a super sentience will capture all of the light emitted within our light cone and simulate everything that ever happened.
- tgv 3y agoThe cells have been dead for 2500 years, it’s incomplete, and then there’s the bit in the article about foreign organic compounds having substituted part of the mass. So my money is on: no way.
- thih9 3y agoI don’t disagree. Then again, 100 years ago we wouldn’t dream about extracting text from a charred, wrapped scroll – and yet it’s been done[1]. Maybe we will be able to extract something from this kind of findings in future. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-Gedi_Scroll https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/En-Gedi_Scroll
- drdaeman 3y agoIt’s not currently possible with fresh corpse’s brains’, so it’s definitely not an option for this one.
- ge96 3y agoNanomachines son. Seriously though if they could do that, then sprinkle them everywhere in the brain to record the signals/assign the blocks per neuron to model... that would be cool to do. I currently think it is hard for me to orchestrate those firework drones as nodes translate to neurons/comms.
- drdaeman 3y agoUnless consciousness is a quantum phenomenon, and then all our digital immortality plans are screwed ;)
- ge96 3y agoPsh... we can't do it with a worm Cool idea