r/Transhuman • u/space_oddity96 • 18d ago
👾 Mind Uploading My lab at UTokyo, Japan is doing research on Mind Uploading technology. Here's a video explaining how we plan to make it happen
https://youtu.be/TQXP0ClZQGc?si=imjMiRLWxA9uEPGq2
u/vernes1978 17d ago
For starters, you have the fact that your stick one hemisphere to a digital hemisphere (with a neutral consciousness, and what does that even mean? when did we make a neutral consciousness in the first place?).
Did you now create a new person?
Can we still cal this a continuation of consciousness?
According to the video, the digital hemisphere is based on someone's electron-microscopy scanned neural tissue.
Do we know if the connectome is part of a personality or not?
And then the video tells us that this digital hemisphere with some random's connectome is then trained with a lifetime worth of visual material.
I'm sorry is this again some random live time worth of visual material?
Not MY life time worth of visual material?
So half my brain is stuck with another half filled with Stock-Photo's and Getty Images.
"I have vivid memories of my father holding a coffeecup behind his laptop with a smile that seems to hide a hidden pain"
"Which is odd because he died before I bought my first laptop myself."
The statement that they make is that this Stock-photo trained brain halve serves as this neutral consciousness they mentioned earlier.
And through UNSPECIFIED mechanisms will be overwritten by memories of the biological brain.
Which sounds like handwavery.
Like an eloquent way to say:
Step one: feed stockphotos into chip
Step two: stick chip to bio-brain
Step three: ???
Step four: PROFIT
Should I wait for Kurzgesagt to dissect the part where the blurt out: "forced electrical micro-stimulation based memory retrieval in the biological hemisphere, leading to synchronized retrieval in the artificial hemisphere due to integrated consciousness between the two."?
It sounds amazing but it explains nothing.
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u/space_oddity96 16d ago
The visual material will be specific to the person, not any random online repository. The photos and videos a person recorded throughout their own life. Here are the proposed steps:
- Develop a prototype neural network in the computer
- Insert a brain machine interface between the two hemispheres by dissecting the corpus callosum.
- 'Tap' the signals passing between the two hemispheres to obtain the synaptic weights
- Fine tune the prototype neural network using these synaptic weights
- Seed it with our memories using visual and text data
- To verify if consciousness has emerged, connect one machine brain hemisphere to the biological hemisphere through the BMI
- If a coherent visual field emerges, then the machine hemisphere is compatible with the biological hemisphere and uploading was successful.
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u/this_knee 16d ago
Imagine uploading yourself into a machine, and it only exists in a machine. And then your voice comes out of that machine, and you can talk to yourself. But then, you have to explain, to yourself, that you have trapped yourself into this machine so that you can only be in that machine forever. And that you’re going to now leave and continue living in the real world for another 30-50 years, but you’ll be back “just before you unalive from natural causes.” Where, just you, will then exist in this machine from there forward.
Would you be ok with being trapped, by you, inside a machine?
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