have you ever felt like you're someone else have you ever woken up started from
a dream and in that brief space between your unconscious and conscious mind
have you ever panicked at the thought of whose body you're inhabiting most of us
will understand this experience and we'll all equally appreciate that brief
terrifying moment the fear that follows it but what if that was your life every
single day what if every morning you woke up and that feeling of not knowing
who or which body you're in doesn't disappear in an instance but
instead continues for days sometimes weeks well as chance would have it that
mysterious place known only is the SCP foundation has one entry in particular
that may shed some light on the matter so I think you should better take a look
hello Internet what's going on and once again welcome back to the most
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listen body flowing voice Jack Finch as today we curiously ask the question what
if SCP 264 4 was real
for the curious amongst you that scene was from the resounding movie memento
written and directed by Christopher Nolan and released way back when in the
year 2000 and for those of you that have already seen that film in particular
you'll know that the inner workings of Leonard Shelby may offer an interesting
insight into the implications of this particular anomalous entity also it's
just an awesome film for the most part so yet an excuse really nevertheless the
role that a consistent consciousness plays in understanding oneself and also
leading a relatively normal lifestyle is often taken for granted because as
memento so vividly portrays not knowing who you are or what you've done on a
day-to-day basis is a struggle of eternal torment but like many things the
SCP foundation may have already taken that concept one step further as the
record states SCP 264 4 is an incorporeal consciousness otherwise not
of this physical plane that each day will replace the consciousness of a
random human being between 15 and 55 years of age this transfer occurs during
periods of unconsciousness between the current and target house primarily
during periods of sleep although a subsequent transfer will also occur if -
6 4/4 current house is killed or otherwise incapacitated
if the anomalous entity avoids sleep it can stay within a single given host for
several days before succumbing to sleep deprivation and fatigue thankfully
previous hosts of SCP 264 4 have no recollection of the experience and do
not display any further anomalous properties once the entity has
relinquished possession of them yeah it's already a pretty terrifying notion
isn't it the thing that makes this entry so damn intriguing though and also
equally disturbing is the fact that the entity itself is in correspondence with
the foundation via a secure email account that the organization uses to
track the IP addresses of the entities most recent hosts as the entity wakes up
in body after body of different people all across the globe it logs into an
email account and describes to the best of its ability who and where it is - a
remotely station researcher even more disturbing though which is revealed
after scouring through the scp-261 for entry is that it is suggested that this
particular anomalous entity was previously under direct containment by
the foundation which can only really point to one thing this
phenomena may be an entity of the foundation's own creation and
essentially that's the point of this entire question because what we should
really be looking at is the possibility of something like this ever happening
and more importantly it points to the scientific capability that one day your
consciousness could perhaps become just as incorporeal as the anomalous entity
in question and under the wrong set of circumstances that's a far more
terrifying reality than even the SCP foundation can imagine the fact of the
matter remains as of 2019 the possibility of mapping and quantifying
human consciousness is rapidly becoming a very real scenario and whilst that
sounds like an awesome future to boldly step into with it also comes a whole
swath of a hypothetical pitfalls an ethical problem several of which could
perhaps end in a scenario similar to the anomalous torment of 264 for first
however we need to understand how the human mind could ever be captured in the
first place our brains which are otherwise gray lumps of fatty tissue
contain around 100 billion individual brain cells known as neurons it is
estimated that the number of connections that can occur in the human brain are in
the quadrillions or a million billion as brain activity occurs and electricity
and chemicals are passed between these brain sounds and neuron sends signals to
each other and thus as they cascade from signal to memory to an entire network of
neurons that form links with each other firing simultaneously we have conscious
thought we think therefore we are however from a technical perspective the
inner mechanics of the brain are relatively straightforward to fabricate
you see because we know what components make up the human mind just like popping
open the hood of an old car or an extraterrestrial spaceship we know how
to replicate them it's just going to take an incredibly long time many
scientists firmly hold the belief that at some point in the near future the
entire human brain will be fully matte forming what is referred to as the
connectome the rosetta stone of the human mind and perhaps the Gateway to a
situation similar to that of two 6:44 because if in this hypothetical scenario
the brain can be replicated and digitally created it poses a very
perplexing question if consciousness lives inside an artificial machine a
computer of sorts is it technically alive would it be considered human
as to whether and any kind of physical form what if in several decades from now
a group of researchers uploaded the consciousness of a willing volunteer to
a machine for the first time in scientific history and the human race
rejoiced at the thought of digital immortality said that this brand-new
consciousness could communicate to the researchers through some form of visual
platform and after testing it copiously the possibility of uploading human
consciousness to a machine was considered a complete success and a
civilization stepped into a bright brave new world of both synthetic and physical
life but they're not what if after those experiments were conducted one
particularly clumsy researcher accidentally tripped on the cord that
was powering this consciousness machine and suddenly that human machine mind
went disappearing behind the buzz of a blank monitor where would that
consciousness go what if it was already connected to the Internet where would be
its destination would it be cursed to roam the digisphere
that connects a global population frantically searching for a human vessel
to call a home desperately trying to understand who or what it is but never
being able to contain its incorporeal self for long enough yeah that's a
terrifying thought isn't it well though we have it out
roundabout answer to the horrifying question what if scp-261 was real what
did you guys think you agreed you disagree
let us know your thoughts down in the comment section below so as any
intriguing insight that you may have to add to the matter before we depart from
today's video let's first take a quick look at some of your more resounding
remarks over the past few days Tiger x101 says what if consciousness
transference was a thing Hey look at that that's pretty convenient isn't it
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