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Re: Upload your mind into a computer by 2050?

well, there are a few things that need to get done before that happens, lets start with what exactly you define as mind. No matter the answer to the first question, you need an interface to the mind, and you have to realize that your brain stores information in neural impulses, and just about any doctor is afraid of messing with the brain, so how do they propose will the brain be interfaced. This one kinda goes with the first one, Yes, you might have enough space to store the data and you might have a way of extracting it, but in the digital world everything is based on a binary system, and if mind implies feelings and emations, would you imagine how will it be possible to store those, what kind of a filesystem, format? 5 years just doesnt seem like the time frame to me. And last but not least, reading and writing in the mind impies different things and procedures, what is the use of storing your mind of there is no way of reproducing it or for that matter really studying it, well, i guess there is some, but still, maybe 50 years, wont argue it, we'll see what happens...


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