Posted on 03/21/2019 4:57:16 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I was downloading a bunch of files on my computer recently to a flash drive when a weird thought hit me: Will it ever be possible to download a person's mind onto a memory chip? I mean your brain is like a memory storage so theoretically wouldn't it be possible to download that memory to another location such as a memory chip.
Of course, if it could be a pretty boring existence since what the hell kind of fun could you have stuck inside of a high memory flash drive sitting in the corner of a shelf?
AOC can use a single flip-flop.
The only thing that is impossible is time travel.
It won’t be “you” on the “chip”. But the information will be there. And I doubt it will be a chip.
It’s like saying, 120 years ago, “do you think it will ever be possible to record a thousand songs on a wax cylinder?
The answer is, no. But a different medium is coming where it will be possible to store that many songs. :)
Memories are not stored in the mind, but in the soul which is much larger than the physical body.
Hubris. Human consciousness transcends mere data. Computer software is never going to achieve consciousness. Without consciousness you have zombie stimulus-response.
If you could record something from your brain, it would be a recording. The complex sequences that associate your memories and create thought is a function of the way your brain is organized and trained. Whatever you recorded would hold nothing that was “you.” It would be like a fuzzy black and white photo from a long ago event, bereft of meaning and only accessible to someone who downloaded it and viewed it. There would be no portion of “you” in that recording.
That was the idea behind the movie Transcendence (2014), with Johnny Depp. It was actually pretty interesting.
The mind is merely a transmitter and receiver for a small portion of the soul. Consciousness itself is what unfolds the biological clock and causes stem cells to differentiate into specialized cells.
Not any time soon.
Each of us knows far too much to be encoded without vast, vast, vast, amounts of storage.
Interesting sci-fi movie from the 1990s: “Dark City”. Aliens control a human population (the humans don’t know it) and the aliens experiment with human memory, trying to find out what makes us individuals (the aliens operate on a sort of hive mind). In the end, the aliens are defeated and a human explains that they were looking in the wrong place. It’s not our memories that makes us individuals, it is our heart/soul.
Of course it’s possible. Kenny Rogers & The First Edition sang all about it in 1968.
We should probably be careful to distinguish memory from mind.
Why bother inventing something nobody’s going to pick up, plug in and read?
Watch Black Mirror on Netflix..
Mine will be x-rated.
My inhibitory GABA neurons were damaged during meningitis causing my action potential firing rate in my pyramidal neurons to skyrocket into the gamma frequencies.
This higher frequency caused my perception of consciousness to change to where the stored memories of others of experiences since conception are physical to my perceptions. I read people’s souls. I’ve been doing this for 30+ years, but only recently did the ability increase substantially.
“Could this be possible?”
It might, but I hope not.
Mine would be a mishmash of old TV shows and movies.
“I mean your brain is like a memory storage so theoretically wouldn’t it be possible to download that memory to another location such as a memory chip.”
They are already trying to cram us into Soviet-style apartment blocks in “walkable” neighborhoods to fight “sprawl.” Think how much easier we will be to control of we all fit in a drawer.
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