Comments by "Hallands Menved" (@Hallands.) on "When will we upload our consciousness to the cloud?" video.

  1. We will never upload our consciousness! Consciousness — the awareness of our sensorium, our doing and being — is not a product of our mind!  Consciousness is the prerequisite for all forms; itself formless, limitless, eternal and untouchable. We may contemplate uploading our mind to some matrix — have in fact been fantasizing about this since the 70s — but one human mind is at least as complex as the entire milky way galaxy with as many neurons as there are stars, each with approximately 20,000 connections to other cells and neurons, and each contacts, synapse, can be tweaked to facilitate transmission or inhibit it. Contacts can even be remolded with changing demands. But assume we could upload the mind, the copied mind would still not have any self awareness, presence or consciousness, and unless given tasks and demands by way of some external interface, would quickly lose its ability to change focus. It would go "mad", but without any healing resources of its own available…
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  2. 6:24 No, "if your consciousness lives on" is a misunderstanding, consciousness isn’t property and contains no identity, but it also never dies, so "lives on" is meaningless; but we could imagine that the soul was somehow trapped and bound to the dead, yet intact brain. In that case consciousness would linger and the brain become "haunted" until the soul moved on. But sooner or later it must and along with it goes all traces of consciousness.
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