[MURG] Uploading via memory implants?

[Thomas Weber]

 Eric:
> No matter how detailed the activity pattern you
> record, it still
> wouldn't be enough. It's like making a copy of a
> painting using only
> highly detailed measurements of its edges.
> 
> > Such a gradual tranfer could be conducted via
> > accessible part of the brain - in our case 50% of
> the
> > brain surface.
> > 
> 
> I don't think anyone doubts that you could make a
> transfer from these
> parts of the brain, but there's just too much data
> that would be
> missed doing this to actually call the result a mind
> upload.
>
Thomas:
I agree that transfering all data from the mind will
pose a serious problem. In my late contemplations on
the subject I have come to believe that perhaps we
don't need to transfer all information contained in
the brain, as long as we transfer the sense of self.
Notice that in the course of our lives we constantly
learn new information and delete (in human language we
call it "forget") old information. So we lose plenty
of information on daily basis without even thinking
about being uploaded, and this does not affect our
sense of self at all. So I believe there must be some
maximum information we may lose, and some minimum we
must keep to maintain the sense of self. If that
minimum is reached in the brain computer transfer -
the mind uploading experiment may be considered
successful, and if it is not reached .... we will have
a problem with a comatose underupload.

Kind Regards,
Thomas Weber

 
> -- 
> Eric Zilli
> Hasselmo Lab - Computational Neurophysiology
> Center for Memory and Brain
> Boston University
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> Boston MA, 02215
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