People have dreamed about heading ahead of the boundaries of their bodies, the illness, the pain and above all, the death. Now the revolution is to dress up in the latest fashioned technology wearable. There is a belief that says Science will pave a futuristic path to evolve further more from their current physical shape an make these dreams become a reality, it is called Transhumanism.
One of the most dramatic way technology may transform us is the idea when someone’s brain could be converted into digitalized form and uploaded in a tremendously powerful computer. This would perhaps allow us to live immortally and unbound by virtual experiences. (as long as you are continuously backed up and none switches you off).
However, Transhumanists seem to ignore the numerous obstacles in this kind of uploading of mind. Not only there are such practical difficulties but there are also some other fundamental problems in this whole concept.
The idea is still a staple in science fiction. Ray Kurzweii, Director of Engineering at Google did the most to popularize the idea that may become reality in future, as soon as 2045. Robin Hanson, the economist explored the consequences of such a society in the economy. He sees the World to be a place where all the work is run in the virtual world simultaneously by the disembodied emulation of a mind of a human using a city sized cloud computing system.
It is a notion that our minds are yet to be uploaded but to our realization we are already living in a matrix kind of computer simulation. Elon Musk, the technology entrepreneur revived discussions that we may not be living in a computer simulation was one in billions. Of course this is just a revival idea only discussed by philosophers and other mystics for more than hundred years.
But there are some critical troubles with the approach of uploading minds to a computer. To start with the practicality, we all are aware of the fact that our brain has more than 85 billion neurons. To put this all up digitally, mapping each of these connections is required which is almost unimaginable at the given capabilities we have. This is only possible to be done in a few decades with the current pace of growth in technology and development. And can only be possible on a sectioned and dead brain.
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