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Originally Posted by Sculpt
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.
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Ill give you a couple of positions, the below link is to the 2045 Initiative. It is run by a Neuroscientist who says that by 2020 he will have finished a full body robot completely controlled by BCI (Brain-Computer Interface). Then by 2025 the group will have created a, they call it an Avatar, that can receive a human brain and in doing so retain all of that person memories and his consciousness effectively making that person immortal, with proper maintenance. Then by 2035 an Avatar with a man maid brain that they will download your brain functions to. The 2045 part of the initiative is to remove the physical Avatar and have the brain stored and an holographic Avatar created.
http://2045.com/
Then there is Bina48, Ill let you read the article but when it come down to it, they continuously upload what they call mind files to the robot and it is able to remember Bina's life, it is able to use her vocabulary, it is able to express emotions. It is the first step to being a fully functional robotic version of the real Bina. The end step this company wants is to be able to upload all of a persons "Mind Files" into a database and have you be able to interact with that person via your smart phone. They are not wanting to make robots that will eventually take over the earth but make on screen Avatars that will be able to continue growing and learning and helping us advance.
http://www.dailydot.com/technology/m...na-mind-clone/