(epistemic status: same as the post, I don’t know neuroscience)
I mis-heard the song version and had a different interpretation of something, but it actually seems like a good idea to consider so here it is :).
Remove the assumption that the biological version of oneself needs to survive the process. Then, perform very quick scan of all the neurons on a very short timescale without worrying about the brain being destroyed afterwards, only about accurately scanning all the neurons before that happens. Would this data of the whole brain for a very short time (maybe some fraction of a second) be enough to digitally reconstruct the mind and run it?
Maybe it wouldn’t be because of neuroscience reasons I wouldn’t know, or ‘neural spikes over time’ not being predictable from the very-short-timespan data (again for some reason I wouldn’t know). Also, maybe such a fast scan is not physically possible with current technology (I’d guess that something more efficient than inserting 100 billion wires would be needed).
But if it were possible and feasible, I think it would be worth it, the world’s at stake after all. I’d volunteer.
I don’t know if this is possible conditional on you having some brain scan data.
I think I could build a much better model of it. The backstory of this post is that I wanted to think about exactly this problem. But then realized that maybe it does not make any sense because it’s just not technically feasible to get the data.
After writing the post I updated that. I am now a bit more pessimistic than the post might suggest actually. So I probably won’t think about this particular way to upload yourself for a while.
(epistemic status: same as the post, I don’t know neuroscience)
I mis-heard the song version and had a different interpretation of something, but it actually seems like a good idea to consider so here it is :).
Remove the assumption that the biological version of oneself needs to survive the process. Then, perform very quick scan of all the neurons on a very short timescale without worrying about the brain being destroyed afterwards, only about accurately scanning all the neurons before that happens. Would this data of the whole brain for a very short time (maybe some fraction of a second) be enough to digitally reconstruct the mind and run it?
Maybe it wouldn’t be because of neuroscience reasons I wouldn’t know, or ‘neural spikes over time’ not being predictable from the very-short-timespan data (again for some reason I wouldn’t know). Also, maybe such a fast scan is not physically possible with current technology (I’d guess that something more efficient than inserting 100 billion wires would be needed).
But if it were possible and feasible, I think it would be worth it, the world’s at stake after all. I’d volunteer.
I don’t know if this is possible conditional on you having some brain scan data.
I think I could build a much better model of it. The backstory of this post is that I wanted to think about exactly this problem. But then realized that maybe it does not make any sense because it’s just not technically feasible to get the data.
After writing the post I updated that. I am now a bit more pessimistic than the post might suggest actually. So I probably won’t think about this particular way to upload yourself for a while.