What if our creation will be able to exist on the Internet forever
Source:is it Possible to exist in a virtual environment?
Imagine that the human brain can be scanned in minute detail, and recreated in a computer simulation. The human mind and its memories, emotions and personality will be duplicated. In fact, a new and equally reliable version of this man will now exist in potentially immortal digital form. Is it possible? And what «pitfalls» can be in this process if such will ever happen?
Possible digital immortality?
The Scientific community has increasingly suggests that and load it in a virtual environment is more likely than not. Technology is likely to be created in the distant future, but considering how much interest this theme, download of consciousness into something like the Internet seems inevitable. Of course, we can't be sure how it might affect our culture, but to the extent that developments in the technology of artificial neural networks, we can guess what might be the future. One of the possible outcomes described by the psychologist Michael Graziano , described below, conducting a thought experiment.
How to digitalize the brain
Suppose one day you go to the clinic to produce similar operation. Let's be optimistic and pretend that the technology works just fine. After the procedure «digitizing» (let's call it) you are still yourself and no not get new abilities. At the same time in the virtual world «wakes up» your virtual copy. It has your combination of knowledge and skills. and all the memories. The last thing your double remember — this is how he came to the clinic and were in the process of digitizing.
I prefer «geometric» method of reasoning about a given situation. Imagine your life is like the letter Y. — says Mr. Graziano. The base of the letters — this is the moment of birth. And as you grow, your personality is formed. Then you allow yourself to digitize, and since then, the letter Y is branched. Now there are two trajectories, each of them equally you. «Biological» the branch will inevitably die, but here «health» potentially can live forever.
Availability «digital double» — it is a very difficult philosophical and ethical issue
Each of us is already present in the virtual world with a constant stream of information passing through social networks, YouTube, and so on. We live in a digital multiverse, and each one of us — in his «virtual bubble» where part of the multiverse — that «pieces» the Internet that we used to go and «bubble» — our personal space. Confidential information.
If you will create a full, and even to people it was with the same personalities and needs, as in real life, without having the disadvantages of existence in reality, like diseases, a large part of the population can agree to such. What do you think about that kind of digital immortality? Tell us about it in our .
As in the virtual world will live more and more people, the balance of the culture of reality will shift in that direction. Given that most people will undergo the process of transferring one's consciousness, at some point, physical existence may be only an initial step in the development of personality, and real life will only begin after digitization.
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