#brain emulation

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Living Forever: The Future of Consciousness Uploading

Futuristic digital representation of consciousness uploading. For centuries, humans have dreamed of immortality. From ancient myths of eternal life to modern scientific pursuits, the idea of living forever has fascinated us. Today, one of the most compelling possibilities for achieving this goal is consciousness uploading—the process of transferring a person’s mind into a digital or artificial…

Living Forever: The Future of Consciousness Uploading

[bradleycarlgeiger]

Using simulators intended to simulate attacks on a physical brain (not direct-to-soul mind control) is an easy way to have brain emulating artificial intelligence available without many extra steps, if you already possess such simulators. Simply simulate a brain (probably your brain) as though it were under attack, but with no attacks occurring, and then provide it input data by simulating it were you sitting at a workstation with unlimited data access, with the speed ratio maximized, for any simulated length of time you desire.

Basically, you can act (virtually) as if you read every document and performed every desirable computer task, yourself, and take the output as potential suggestions on how to improve operations. And since a virtual version of yourself will understand it, when you read it you will certainly recognize the important points to further investigate.

[military-intelligence-innovation]

Brain emulating robots devices or programs should know largely everything in addition to the personal knowledge of the individuals that they represent

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whole brain emulation

[para-imperium]

Horizon: Rebuilt Ch. 12

While Shawn worked on the quantum core and the orb’s reader, Horizon cleaned biomass out of the exo-suit they’d claimed. After rinsing with a non-conductive solution she more-or-less hung it upside-down from a set of cables suspended from the ceiling. Horizon found herself wondering if perhaps they’d have been better off leaving it behind. Sure, it might be useful for lifting things or in a…

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[myserendipities]

Economist Robin Hanson’s new book “The Age of Em: Work, Love and Life when Robots Rule the Earth” imagines a not-too-distant future when robots are commonplace in our life. And the smartest of these will be “ems,” or brain emulations.  These will be super-detailed scans of actual human brains that run as models on computers. And once we figure out how to pull that off cheaply, ems will take over most human jobs.  The advantage ems will have is that they’ll be running 1,000 times faster than an actual human brain. You’ll also be able to copy them. Wouldn’t you rather scan and duplicate the brain of a Stephen Hawking and have that em do most everything?   The moment when ems will take over is similar to the singularity famously proposed by the futurist Ray Kurzweil. But Hanson thinks a brain em will come in the next 100 years, sooner than self-aware AI because they will be recreations of brains rather than harder-to-create brain consciousnesses. Brain ems can come as a culmination of the technology we already employ, like brain scans and models. One day we’ll just know everything there is to know about brains and will be able to get computers to mimic them. Emulations will perform most of their tasks in virtual reality, and for physical jobs like factory work they will have some specialized “bodies”. Ems will be functioning creatures that will develop and live in the same world as humans but will eventually develop their own civilization. Once ems will be doing most of our jobs, humans will have to create a new civilization for themselves. Hanson imagines ems will be congregating in a few megacities full of technology, while the humans will live essentially retired in suburbs. The ems will be running all the businesses and government. The rest of the people will generally not work, especially if they managed to make good investments or have government or corporate insurance. Some will financially benefit from being the originals whose brain scans were used to create ems. Interestingly, the descendants of the original human or “copies” will together be called a “clan”. There will, of course, be many left behind.

Scientist Predicts Brain Simulations Will Take Over Our Jobs and Government in the Next 100 Years | Big Think

[leapmind]

Perhaps a better approach for future Nicolas Flamels—or Ray Kurzweils or Dmitry Itskovs—is not copying our brains but, rather, trying to migrate the self to a new physical host. Like a hermit crab seeking a new shell, immortality may not really be about copying ourselves but about creating a process in which we slowly leave behind our current, biological homes and move somewhere more durable, a point made by Steven Novella, a clinical neurologist and an assistant professor at Yale. How might this work? In the past two decades, scientists have gained a better understanding of neuroplasticity, or the idea that the brain is continually rewiring itself. Stroke victims, for example, sometimes recover lost functions after their brains reallocate control of certain actions from a damaged area. The idea would be to encourage the brain’s activities to slowly begin migrating to a massively interconnected electronic brain. Over time, if things went well, our intelligence and identity might be coaxed into leaving behind the old brain and taking refuge in a more durable unit (which would be attached to the robot body mentioned earlier).