Do you hope that Mind Uploading will be a thing before you die?
March 14, 2025
So you could upload your mind to a computer where you can live through whatever you want to in virtual environments and you could live as long as there is hardware around which can run your mind, like in the animated series "Pantheon"?
22 comments
Before watching Black Mirror or Severance? Fuck yeah.
After ? Hell no.
Potential for abuse and having your mind suffer eternal servitude/slavery is way to high.
Furthermore we are not just our neural pathway, our “mind” is the interaction of our brain with our hormones, and biological flora. You can’t take the biology out of it easily without loosing what make you yourself.
Hell yeah! Still scary, but technology is here to advance
No, actually I think that would be terrible and I would never want that. Have you ever thought about the implications of this? If not… I recommend you play a game called SOMA 😅
I liked the idea, then I played SOMA. My transhumanist fantasies died a horrible death that week.
Okay, okay. So, say I put my brain in a robot body and there’s a war. Robots versus humans. What side am I on?
It’s never going to be you, just a copy of you. You die, and the copy lives on. Same with teleportation. So no, not looking forward to it 😛
Hope not. Family would feel forced to pay the subscription and there’d still be ads for all eternity.
No, I think death is a good thing. There’s a time to live, and a time to peace out.
Hmmmm … to be owned by some evil corporation for all eternity?
Hell no, the mf will find a way to make me work even dead. Let me go.
There’s so much we don’t know about the human mind and how it works, even if you could create a database that could hold a human personality there is no guarantee it would work.Â
Why would you want to upload your mind to a computer? Your conciousness will still die with the body.
I certainly hope we get there but I don’t think we will. We know VERY less about neuroscience to take such strides.
Yes, definitely. Living 70-80 even 90 years in a 14 billion old universe on a 4-5 billion old planet is not enough. It is scary though.
It would be mostly for vanity or loved ones, the you that exists right now will die, the uploaded version will just be a copy. Personally, after Black Mirror and other sci-fi shows/books, I’d be hesitant to put my copy through some of the hellish nightmares that might await them.
The mind is just brainfarts, nobody will ever be able to upload it. The idea is like the religious belief of afterlife just for transhumanists.
Yes, but it will not happen in the foreseeable future. And obviously impossible in capitalist countries and with our current social models.
This is creepy. And I’m no narcissist, or can’t picture a use for my digitally preserved brain. So… terrible idea!
But you would still die, wouldn’t you? It’s copy-paste, not cut-paste. And then, you would no longer be human. Would you still be self aware? Would you know? Storage capacity is one thing, but what about the graphics? Or would you still interact with the world as a robot or something? Who would manage the hardware? Would you have control? Would you be a slave? Will you be backuped? Can you be duplicated? So many questions.
I dont know man, I think there are some details that need to be worked out first.
Liked the idea but I’m sure that it will not transfer the consciousness, and it will be an emotionless uktra advanced AI that imitates you. Plus you will put the trust on other people that will not nake funny things.
Bit I it will be the way that nobody will fuck up on the server, or try to exploit me, and it finds a way to transfer the my consciousness, I may like the idea.
Absolutely not. I’m not deluded enough to think that my mind is something special that needs to be maintained for posterity. I believe that there is a time to live and a time to die. And not a time to be a tortured semi sentient computer.
To upload your mind, waking up and asking, did it work?
While you live on your live and another you is waking up in a digital world and asking, did it work?
And watching you from there living your life while him being there
Feels strange
I have no idea how a continuation would work but your consciousness would basically split and the reality of that and it would probably be terrifying
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Before watching Black Mirror or Severance? Fuck yeah.
After ? Hell no.
Potential for abuse and having your mind suffer eternal servitude/slavery is way to high.
Furthermore we are not just our neural pathway, our “mind” is the interaction of our brain with our hormones, and biological flora. You can’t take the biology out of it easily without loosing what make you yourself.
Hell yeah! Still scary, but technology is here to advance
No, actually I think that would be terrible and I would never want that. Have you ever thought about the implications of this? If not… I recommend you play a game called SOMA 😅
I liked the idea, then I played SOMA. My transhumanist fantasies died a horrible death that week.
Okay, okay. So, say I put my brain in a robot body and there’s a war. Robots versus humans. What side am I on?
It’s never going to be you, just a copy of you. You die, and the copy lives on. Same with teleportation. So no, not looking forward to it 😛
Hope not. Family would feel forced to pay the subscription and there’d still be ads for all eternity.
No, I think death is a good thing. There’s a time to live, and a time to peace out.
Hmmmm … to be owned by some evil corporation for all eternity?
Hell no, the mf will find a way to make me work even dead. Let me go.
There’s so much we don’t know about the human mind and how it works, even if you could create a database that could hold a human personality there is no guarantee it would work.Â
Why would you want to upload your mind to a computer? Your conciousness will still die with the body.
I certainly hope we get there but I don’t think we will. We know VERY less about neuroscience to take such strides.
Yes, definitely. Living 70-80 even 90 years in a 14 billion old universe on a 4-5 billion old planet is not enough. It is scary though.
It would be mostly for vanity or loved ones, the you that exists right now will die, the uploaded version will just be a copy. Personally, after Black Mirror and other sci-fi shows/books, I’d be hesitant to put my copy through some of the hellish nightmares that might await them.
The mind is just brainfarts, nobody will ever be able to upload it. The idea is like the religious belief of afterlife just for transhumanists.
Yes, but it will not happen in the foreseeable future. And obviously impossible in capitalist countries and with our current social models.
This is creepy. And I’m no narcissist, or can’t picture a use for my digitally preserved brain. So… terrible idea!
But you would still die, wouldn’t you? It’s copy-paste, not cut-paste. And then, you would no longer be human. Would you still be self aware? Would you know? Storage capacity is one thing, but what about the graphics? Or would you still interact with the world as a robot or something? Who would manage the hardware? Would you have control? Would you be a slave? Will you be backuped? Can you be duplicated? So many questions.
I dont know man, I think there are some details that need to be worked out first.
Liked the idea but I’m sure that it will not transfer the consciousness, and it will be an emotionless uktra advanced AI that imitates you. Plus you will put the trust on other people that will not nake funny things.
Bit I it will be the way that nobody will fuck up on the server, or try to exploit me, and it finds a way to transfer the my consciousness, I may like the idea.
Absolutely not. I’m not deluded enough to think that my mind is something special that needs to be maintained for posterity. I believe that there is a time to live and a time to die. And not a time to be a tortured semi sentient computer.
To upload your mind, waking up and asking, did it work?
While you live on your live and another you is waking up in a digital world and asking, did it work?
And watching you from there living your life while him being there
Feels strange
I have no idea how a continuation would work but your consciousness would basically split and the reality of that and it would probably be terrifying