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Could this lead us to being able to upload our brains onto computers? To kill death. Very cool.
by ogogmad 2y ago
Could this lead us to being able to upload our brains onto computers? To kill death. Very cool.
- wao0uuno 2y agoWould your brain uploaded onto computer still be you?
- seanw444 2y agoA copy of you, not the same instance.
- BoiledCabbage 2y agoDo you create a new instance every time you awaken from sleep? If not, why not?
- seanw444 2y agoBecause the same you has been active the whole time. Your brain didn't cease function through sleep. Kind of like sleep mode vs. rebooting a computer.
- astrange 2y agoYou're mostly driven by bodily conditions and hormones. A computer recording of you isn't going to behave the same because it has no particular motivation to behave any specific way in the first place.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoIf you can simulate a brain, you can simulate hormones.
- astrange 2y agoHow do you decide what to set them to? You don't have intrinsic motivations anymore!
- FeepingCreature 2y agoEh? You can have as many intrinsic motivations as you like. You just copy the procedure from the original brain.
- astrange 2y agoThe original ones are wrong though (well, not adaptive). Hunger is pointless when you can't eat.
- foobiekr 2y agoHans Moravec has an incrementalist approach to this which I think actually does accomplish eliminating the copy issue.
- FeepingCreature 2y agoTo be noted, if you accept a brain upload made gradually you should also accept a brain upload made discontinuously. If the same brain state comes out, the process can't actually matter.
- suddenlybananas 2y agoNo.