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Originally Posted by Jake.Ashworth
They also can download your consciousness into a computer now. It's only been done once so far, but they can take your mind and put it into a computer, technically making your consciousness live forever.
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Hi Jake! Can you cite (give a link) to that source?
I would be willing to bet $1000 a human
consciousness has not been downloaded to a computer.
The technical functioning of consciousness in the brain is not yet understood (from the lastest TED Talks, & other, research). So such a claim sounds ridiculous. There are approximately 100 billion neurons in a human brain. Each neuron has up to 10,000 synapses (connecting lines) to other neurons. Which means there's as many as 1,000 trillion synaptic connections. Ironically, that being said, computer harddrive space and processing speed aren't the issue -- if one were able to construct a computer, and pseudo-duplicate an individual's brain structure, how would one get it to initiate its own motion (thoughts consciousness)?
In regards to "consciousness", I guess that's dependent on just how loosely someone wants to define 'consciousness'. If any engineer had the nuts to announce such a claim (a human
consciousness has been downloaded to a computer), I'd love to see how they define it. It might not be what we call consciousness.