Comment Re:Immortality. (Score 1) 394
i do not believe that it will ever be possible to transfer human consciousness into a machine.
first off the human mind is a massively parallel system with many subsystems all working on specialized tasks. you can then make the comparison of the human brain to a multithreaded application (only instead of a handfull of threads, you have billions).
what you are talking about doing, is taking everybit of data from one parrallel system and transplanting it into another. lets now explore the 2 ways of moving data. first we could try to move data in a parallel maner from brain to maaachine, this wont work because it would mean atatching somekind of recording device to every neuron. im no doctor, but i'll bet that kind of brain surgery is impossible. the second way of transfering data is serialy. for this to work, you would need to be able to take a snapshot of every "thread' in the brain. then transfer one thread at a time over the serial connection to the new brain. once the "thread" is in place, it can then continue processing.
the brain is a massively complex thing, and reducing its processes to "threads" is a huge oversimplification. i personally believe that because so much of the brain is connected to so many other parts of the brain, to get a snapshot of all the data, the entire brain ( aka very complex state machine) would have to be stopped.
i for one do not want to have my brain stopped.
first off the human mind is a massively parallel system with many subsystems all working on specialized tasks. you can then make the comparison of the human brain to a multithreaded application (only instead of a handfull of threads, you have billions).
what you are talking about doing, is taking everybit of data from one parrallel system and transplanting it into another. lets now explore the 2 ways of moving data. first we could try to move data in a parallel maner from brain to maaachine, this wont work because it would mean atatching somekind of recording device to every neuron. im no doctor, but i'll bet that kind of brain surgery is impossible. the second way of transfering data is serialy. for this to work, you would need to be able to take a snapshot of every "thread' in the brain. then transfer one thread at a time over the serial connection to the new brain. once the "thread" is in place, it can then continue processing.
the brain is a massively complex thing, and reducing its processes to "threads" is a huge oversimplification. i personally believe that because so much of the brain is connected to so many other parts of the brain, to get a snapshot of all the data, the entire brain ( aka very complex state machine) would have to be stopped.
i for one do not want to have my brain stopped.
