Odd question I know.. maybe not the right place either..?

Question

I've seen the articles about people controlling artificial limbs connected to their brain, controlling computers.. playing pong with just thoughts etc. You also here of scientists and computer programmers working on VR type stuff. So I can see where things may be heading down the road 20, 50, 100 years etc. So I ask.. 1st Do you think it may be possible in the future to download all the memories, how a persons brain transmits information..pretty much everything that makes a person's brain a brain..just without the chemicals and protein that makes up a persons real brain, into a super computer. And 2nd if that is possible would that computer then become that person? I guess what I am getting at is would this be a step towards immortality for the human race? and would if I were to go through such a procedure and my body dies, would that supercomputer become me?

Answer 1

Technological Singularity....; Follow this link

http://singinst.org/singularityfaq#FriendlyAI







1. Basics



1.1. What is the Singularity?



There are many types of mathematical and physical singularities, but in this FAQ we use the term 'Singularity' to refer to the technological singularity. There are three distinct ideas someone might have in mind when they refer to a 'technological Singularity':

1.Intelligence explosion: When humanity builds machines with greater-than-human intelligence, they will also be better than we are at creating still smarter machines. Those improved machines will be even more capable of improving themselves or their successors. This is a positive feedback loop that could, before losing steam, produce a machine with vastly greater than human intelligence: machine superintelligence. Such a superintelligence would have enormous powers to make the future unlike anything that came before it.

2.Event horizon: All social and technological progress thus far has come from human brains. When technology creates entirely new kinds of intelligence, this will cause the future to be stranger than we can imagine. So there is an 'event horizon' in the future beyond which our ability to predict the future rapidly breaks down.

3.Accelerating change: Technological progress is faster today than it was a century ago, and it was faster a century ago than it was 500 years ago. Technological progress feeds on itself, leading to accelerating change much faster than the linear change we commonly expect, and perhaps change that is faster than we can cope with.



These three ideas are distinct, and might support or contradict each other depending on how they are stated. In this FAQ we focus on the intelligence explosion Singularity, which allows for easy discussion of the other two Singularity ideas.



See also:

Yudkowsky, Three Major Singularity Schools

Wikipedia, Technological Singularity

Vinge, The Coming Technological Singularity

SIAI, What is the Singularity?

Kurzweil, The Singularity is Near

Sandberg, An Overview of Models of Technological Singularity

Answer 2

This human race will never be immortal. In fact, the human race and all life in the universe will eventually be extinct. The cause is the 2nd law of thermodynamics which says that the entropy of an isolated system will never decrease. Nothing is exempt from this. A computer can only operate if it increases entropy as well as all forms of life.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

This will be possible before 2100, mark my words. And it is completely relevant to religion and spirituality because once this happens the already waning belief in deities and the afterlife will become even more fatuous.

Answer 5

Yes, but this is completely irrelevant to religion or spirituality.



Yes, it is irrelevant. You were asking about the science behind it, not the implications of it. This would be more for philosophy section.

Answer 6

Unless the computer understands and can feel your emotions I don't think so. It'll just be a data bank of memories.

Answer 7

We are already somebody's biological computers. Too late, pal.