CIOL : News : Brain downloads 'possible by 2050'
This will never happen. Mathematician/Physicist Roger Penrose wrote a fantastic book/essay called the Emperor's New Mind in which he makes a convincing case that consciousness in vertebrates, whose neurotransmission techniques are different from insects and arthropods, is a quantum phenomenon. We don't evaluate probabilities as we reason - we recognize and sieze that recognition with a 'Eureka!'
If cognition is a quantum effect (which as I've posited before, essentially builds 'free will' into the fabric of our being), then no computer can replicate our minds.
Could we someday offload data from our brains? That may be possible. But we will never, ever be able to transfer our consciousness into a computer. We are, in our very design, too quantumly unique to be transfered a la mad scientist. In short, it will never happen!
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
CIOL : News : Brain downloads 'possible by 2050'
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But, it looked so easy in the Stargate SG-1 episode I just watched last night! Of course the character's consciousness was uploaded by an alien entity so that could have been the key point :)
(coincidence by the way)
Hmm, maybe that coincidence website talk didn't dampen things at all. :-)
Certainly not! You wouldn't believe all the coincidences I had. I really want to believe that it was just because I was paying extra extra attention.
Never say never!
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