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with doc dot ray kurzweil before he's a futurist
he is google's director of engineering he's also a really really quirky guy and
he had a couple of comments that he made recently about the future
he believes we will be uploading our entire minds by twenty forty five
and that are a human bodies will be replaced by machines within about ninety
years here's video ray kurzweil talking a little bit about the future or we're
going to become increasingly non-biological for the point where
about it
predominates in the biological partners dot
that important anymore
effect on biological part of the machine part will be so powerful it can
completely model and understand
the biological part unit that biological part of what away it wouldn't make a
difference because that
without biological
by ready understood completely
arent so this is that
i've decided there's so many things we could talk about with this but what does
it there's some so i don't even know where to start i mean the question one
is this idea of transferring one's mind or consciousness
onto a harddrive and then potentially into another physical body or even just
into an existence that is only digital so to speak
is that really the continuation of your consciousness or are you really dying
and then you're creating a new entity which has the same memories that you did
at the point that your consciousness was uploaded
but is really different than any other was if i transfer my consciousness at
this point right now
into another body
uh... that's not really needed to someone who has all of my memories and
starts living a new life with those members
i mean consciously
you would still be here
if what we're talking about our machines they can just store this data
uh...
is a really consciousness i mean if we're talking about being able to upload
everything that's in here into a machine and continuing to use everything that's
appear as if there were still brain them
uh... and communicate
guess it would just be your consciousness you just uh... might feel
kind of strange you won't have a body anymore some people in the town think
that it would be wrong for humans to live to have human consciousness
disconnected from eight physical presence in the world
a lot of people on the other hand i think that kind of more advance thinking
species will or if they already exist they don't necessarily have physical
bodies what's your thought on that
well even if you don't uh... consider the possibility of of like uploading a
mind onto a computer
if you just think about you know on the having synthetics sales
grow in the brain and to the point where you know you have a few to replace you
know old aging neurons and then after a a a few more years they sort of become
the majority and eventually they're a hundred percent he'll still have all
your are all your memories your it'll be your brain but the cells instead of
being biological cells will be
um... you know synthetic cells that are potentially a mortal at that point
i think it's
it's hard to say given that you grow new brain cells all the time but it's not
you it's just not the same type of cell that it was before whereas uploading
your brain
does create that question about what happens to the original brain
so i don't know how to answer the question but i think uh... we can
definitely see synthetic
of versions of our bodies taking hold
anything else you want to add to list this kind of connects to that bold
philosophy one oh one question of
if we had teleportation and you were to be
uh... removed if every cell was to be removed here
and recreated through a teleport or across the world
is that really he's still u
or is it just a replacement of u with the exact same memories which begins
living where it teleport's to it's a similar type of question that i don't
know if we can get into that but i A
by am fascinated by this and i have to admit if i had to choose between
uh... dying and not uploading my brain and dying uploading my brain
i think i would hope for corporate u_s_ their i think i would support a without
their aloha bloodstream
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