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Human brain uploads possible by 2045 ?

By T.K. Randall
June 21, 2013 · Comment icon 62 comments

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Google's chief engineer believes it will be possible to become digitally immortal within 30 years.
Ray Kurzweil spoke at the Global Future 2045 World Congress in New York City during the weekend, expressing his views and predictions on how increasingly sophisticated computer technology will revolutionize our lives in the coming decades. Improvements in biotechnology could mean that by the year 2045 it may be possible to upload a human consciousness in to a machine.

"The life expectancy was 20, 1,000 years ago," he said. "We doubled it in 200 years. This will go into high gear within 10 and 20 years from now, probably less than 15, we will be reaching that tipping point where we add more time than has gone by because of scientific progress."
During a conference in New York City last week, the company’s director of engineering said that the growth of biotechnology is so quickly paced that he predicts our lives will be drastically different in just a few decades.


Source: Russia Today | Comments (62)




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Comment icon #53 Posted by Frank Merton 12 years ago
The Tao gets there because its everywhere. I don't want to be glib but that is about all I can say. If it works in animals and people it should work in machines that achieve the same things.
Comment icon #54 Posted by StarMountainKid 12 years ago
I'm wondering just how the brain is going to be uploaded into a computer. Well, the mind. What's the technology? The brain performs many functions separate from mind or consciousness. Does the mind require a biological body to be healthy? A mind floating around in a computer without its body I think would become disoriented. This computer mind would also have to recieve signals from the outside world. The computer would have to recreate all the five senses and be connected in some way to that mind. Perhaps just the realization of that mind that it is computerized would be a traumatic experienc... [More]
Comment icon #55 Posted by DieChecker 12 years ago
There is no such thing as uploading your brain to a computer. A computer doesn't know or will most likely never be able to scan the memories information feelings and everything in the brain onto a computer. The human brain is too complex for a computer to be able to scan. An MRI can detect activity in certain areas but can't actually know what information is stored there or what memories are currently being accessed by the brain. As a person that works on R&D projects at Intel, I can say that for the next several decades there is no fear of computer processing power multiplication slowing ... [More]
Comment icon #56 Posted by DieChecker 12 years ago
Perhaps just the realization of that mind that it is computerized would be a traumatic experience for it. Very, very likely. It would not surprise me if only a small faction of these virtual minds were created and did not go immediately insane....
Comment icon #57 Posted by szentgyorgy 12 years ago
As a person that works on R&D projects at Intel, I can say that for the next several decades there is no fear of computer processing power multiplication slowing down. We're already working on stuff 2 generations of processors ahead of what is on the market. By 2045 (30+ years) you can expect computing power to be about a quarter of a million times faster then today's best computer. Soooo..... Given enough memory (And Intel is working to improve that at the same pace), it is not unreasonable to imagine that a complete and virtual brain, full of virtual connections and activity potential, d... [More]
Comment icon #58 Posted by szentgyorgy 12 years ago
The Tao gets there because its everywhere. I don't want to be glib but that is about all I can say. If it works in animals and people it should work in machines that achieve the same things. But that is exactly the fallacy: Animals, machines and humans are not equivalencies, and never will be.
Comment icon #59 Posted by Frank Merton 12 years ago
But that is exactly the fallacy: Animals, machines and humans are not equivalencies, and never will be. How do you know? Animals and humans both share sentience. Humans may have more than just sentience, or our special characteristics may just be another form of sentience. I don't think increasing computer power is going to make thinking machines. The hype of AI has passed and its promises fell flat. Some different paradigm will be needed to get sentient computers. My only point in this is that we don't need to understand sentience to make it artificially. Natural selection "understands" nothi... [More]
Comment icon #60 Posted by szentgyorgy 12 years ago
How do you know? Animals and humans both share sentience. Humans may have more than just sentience, or our special characteristics may just be another form of sentience. I don't think increasing computer power is going to make thinking machines. The hype of AI has passed and its promises fell flat. Some different paradigm will be needed to get sentient computers. My only point in this that we don't need to understand sentience to make it artificially. Natural selection "understands" nothing, but it made it. Technically, I don't "know" anything for certain. With a few exceptions (cetaceans, som... [More]
Comment icon #61 Posted by Frank Merton 12 years ago
Well first I'm not a materialist; I'm a Buddhist. I think mind is life-spirit and is reborn in the cycle of Samsara. The Buddha never addressed the question of how this world and the cycle came into existence, I think wisely, and I long ago figured out that it had to be through the Western concept of evolution. I'm a Communist of the "Ho Chi Minh" variety, being Vietnamese, and this envisions a mixed society, primarily socialist, and a government of a limited number of people (party "members") to avoid the failings of both Western democracies and oligarchic or aristocratic systems. The governm... [More]
Comment icon #62 Posted by szentgyorgy 12 years ago
Well first I'm not a materialist; I'm a Buddhist. I think mind is life-spirit and is reborn in the cycle of Samsara. The Buddha never addressed the question of how this world and the cycle came into existence, I think wisely, and I long ago figured out that it had to be through the Western concept of evolution. I'm a Communist of the "Ho Chi Minh" variety, being Vietnamese, and this envisions a mixed society, primarily socialist, and a government of a limited number of people (party "members") to avoid the failings of both Western democracies and oligarchic or aristocratic systems. The governm... [More]


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