Comments by "SkyRiver" (@SkyRiver1) on "Is a Brain Upload Possible? Max Tegmark on Whole Brain Emulation" video.

  1. Not with signals base in ones and zeros it can't.
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  2. Consider this possibility: Artificial intelligence will have its origin from artificial life, not from a computer.
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  3. I'll save you the time of watching this, I didn't and don't need to. If you think your brain is the so-called conscious associative mind. It is possible to upload it, because what you think of as you, or "I" is completely mechanical. I know you cannot see this, your not supposed to be able to for your own good (in most cases). Your subjective experience is not a truly conscious experience. Your subjective experience is determined not by what you consider to be you, or your consciousness (consciousness is an illusion just as runningness would be an illusion for a runner who is sitting) but by the metabolic substrate in which your subjective experience takes place. This has been demonstrated that "consciousness" is the last to know about events that your unconscious aspects have already reacted to. So yes the mechanical illusion you refer to as the mind could be simulated and uploaded, but it would be a shadow of what a person really is, a shadow of a shadow really, and without the anchoring in reality provided by a limbic system and other essential aspects of your animal nature it would be quite insane in short order. Well actually it would not even be authentically insane, just an approximation of a mechanism that is not conscious as you believe it to be because your are entirely identified with it, but without the belief in its indispensable illusion of identity. Sorry if that doesn't make sense to you. If it doesn't it is because you are entirely identified with the quite mechanical dynamics of the thought-centric-mind and have never see it's/your true nature.
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