Hypothetical Question: Upon death in the future, could a persons mind be "downloaded" into a computer network?

Question

Hypothetically, in the distant future, do you reckon humanity will have advanced so far as to allow for a person's mind to go into some kind of "virtual universe", contained in a cpu, and exist there immortaly?

And if so would you do it?

Answer 1

Arthur C Clarke explored this subject in the second (or maybe third) of the Space Odyssey series - using a device called a SoulCatcher. Extrapolating developments in memory he calculated that within a few years a portable storage device will have enough capacity to acheive such a feat.

How the interface works is another question entirely ... !!! (until we evolve a USB 2.0 port, presumably)

Answer 2

Young people continue to drop out of high school in record numbers.

What would be the value in having so many retarded computers?

Answer 3

I'd say No, it's not hypothetically possible, since the brain works so much differently than the most efficient approach to data storage. let alone the data processing techniques.

Answer 4

Hypothetically.

Answer 5

This will be possible not in the distant future but in the near future, perhaps within 100 years.

Answer 6

The ethical implications would be far too great... by doing that you would need selectivity.... would you take knowledge or memories? how would you keep privacy and confidentiality? what would you use the information for? research? general access? could this save a person from a neurodegenerative disease such as alzhiemers? by doing this could you swap minds between people or even animals such as primates? what would happen in the event of a power cut or disaster such as floods or fire or malicous attacks from virus and trojans?

i dont think so even if it were possible such as human cloning the ethical and moral implications are too large to make it viable

Answer 7

no. you cant transfer a brain in a computer language

Answer 8

Sorry, no.

Avoiding any ethical issues and limitations of our present capabilities, eventually it may be possible to simulate a human mind and maybe a certain mind. Perhaps even copy all of the stored data in a person’s mind.

But a copy is not the same. A computer’s replication of thoughts is not that person’s thoughts. Even if a computer can obtain consciousness, it will not be someone else’s.

If they develop a perfect replicating device and make a true copy of a person, they will only have a copy.

When a person dies his own consciousness will be gone.

Second question: No! I wouldn’t do it! I would NOT want to live forever.