Have you ever questioned what the future of humanity would look like? Well, it may be a reality sooner than you thought. This is because researchers believe that those of us who are living today might be lucky enough to see technology develop beyond our dreams. We could duplicate our brains to computers, basically ‘living’ forever.
This bizarre phenomenon is called ‘transhumanism’, which is the usage of technology and science to become immortal, whether that’s in the flesh or bionics.
By fundamentally creating a computer-generated copy of yourself, it’ll be stored safe on a computer for much longer than our bodies can endure.
A senior lecturer at the University of Western Australia said, we might be a lot closer to making this a reality.
Clas Weber focusses in philosophy of the mind, AI and metaphysics, and they are certain of this technology will be able to upload our brains, or at least mapping them, in the following decade.
He described that It took ages and hundreds of millions of dollars to map the first human genome about 20 years ago.
Nowadays, the fastest laboratories can do it within hours for about $100.
With similar advances in efficiency, we might encounter mind-uploading technology within the lifetimes of our children or grandchildren.
But mapping the brain is just the biggening, as there are three encounters to overcome before an upload can commence.
One is being able to advance the technology to essentially upload our brain, as this involves a cloning and transferring ability that we haven’t got yet.
Weber said trying to mimic the human brain would be a massive challenge.
Our brains have the most intricate structures in the known universe. They contain around 86 billion neurons and 85 billion non-neuronal cells, with an projected one million billion neural networks.
For contrast, the Milky Way galaxy is home to about 200 billion stars.
There is also the matter of whether a replicated brain could ‘give rise to a actual mind’. By making use of AI, they anticipate to follow some parts of how the mind works, but it could take many years to archive.
The last problem is whether or not it’ll be an individual’s mind or just a synthetic person with imitative memories.
Weber explained, only then does mind uploading access a way for an individual to live on. Visualize your brain is transplanted into the hollow skull of another person’s body. Is the subsequent person, who contain your memories, preferences and character, you – as the mental camp thinks? Or just a person who donated their body? In other words, did you get a new body or did they get a new mind?”
He also went on to caution that uploading a mind is a ‘enormous leap of faith’ to whether it’ll work or not.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/24958433/upload-mind-brain-virtual-clone-ai-immortal-live-forever/
