Yeah but unless quantum interactions are fundamental to consciousness, then you don't really need a quantum computer to simulate it.
And if quantum interactions are fundamental to consciousness then you cannot copy your consciousness (no cloning theorem), although I guess you could, "in theory", teleport it
This is close to impossible. You do not have a mind, made up of little bits of data a computer can read. Minds do not exist in reality. They are an abstraction. You have a brain, a wet pile of electrical meat. "Uploading your brain" is conceptual equivalent of taking the original paper score to Beethoven's ninth symphony, stuffing it inside your iPhone and then expecting music to play. It needs to be transformed and transcribed, and at that point it loses its unique identity that makes you you.
Every time you've heard Beethoven’s ninth symphony it's been because someone stuffed the score in a computer and it played.
Even if you heard it in a real life orchestra or something. The fact that the score is not the same parchment paper (deaf) Beethoven wrote it in changes nothing about the piece.
My personality and my memories and so on change subtly every day I wake up. Over the years the changes accumulate and I'm a different person.
Of course, even if the brain scan and simulation technology was perfect so that there's no distinguishable difference in my thoughts immediately before being scanned and once being simulated, over time the material conditions, the fact that I'm a computer and I now require electricity and microprocessors instead of food and shelter, would over time shape my thoughts and my ideology and turn me into a different person.
It'd still be me.
When the technology isn't perfect there's a discrete change, but again saying that a discrete difference changes the person is saying that one dies when they have a stroke.
if we ever get the technology to upload a brain into a computer i will be one of the first people to do it
deleted by creator
shit. i don't want to think about it i just don't want to die
deleted by creator
i just have to hope that moore's law continues to be true
deleted by creator
Yeah but unless quantum interactions are fundamental to consciousness, then you don't really need a quantum computer to simulate it.
And if quantum interactions are fundamental to consciousness then you cannot copy your consciousness (no cloning theorem), although I guess you could, "in theory", teleport it
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
The self is a spook.
deleted by creator
This is close to impossible. You do not have a mind, made up of little bits of data a computer can read. Minds do not exist in reality. They are an abstraction. You have a brain, a wet pile of electrical meat. "Uploading your brain" is conceptual equivalent of taking the original paper score to Beethoven's ninth symphony, stuffing it inside your iPhone and then expecting music to play. It needs to be transformed and transcribed, and at that point it loses its unique identity that makes you you.
Every time you've heard Beethoven’s ninth symphony it's been because someone stuffed the score in a computer and it played.
Even if you heard it in a real life orchestra or something. The fact that the score is not the same parchment paper (deaf) Beethoven wrote it in changes nothing about the piece.
I don't think you're getting what I'm saying. An upload of your brain wouldn't be you, it'd be a clone, and almost definitely a subtly changed one.
My personality and my memories and so on change subtly every day I wake up. Over the years the changes accumulate and I'm a different person.
Of course, even if the brain scan and simulation technology was perfect so that there's no distinguishable difference in my thoughts immediately before being scanned and once being simulated, over time the material conditions, the fact that I'm a computer and I now require electricity and microprocessors instead of food and shelter, would over time shape my thoughts and my ideology and turn me into a different person.
It'd still be me.
When the technology isn't perfect there's a discrete change, but again saying that a discrete difference changes the person is saying that one dies when they have a stroke.
To be clear I am a proponent of "'You"' is a meaningless concept" but that's not really what I'm talking about right now.
I'm sorry. What do you mean then with the "unique identity"?
deleted by creator
like, a brain emulator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
deleted by creator
Well yeah because they transitioned and now use she/her pronouns
deleted by creator
Yeah, dying is preferable to being made into a g*mer.
deleted by creator