Will People Alive Today Have the Opportunity to Upload Their Consciousness to a New Robotic Body?

[MindMover]

When Steve Jobs passed away last year, a joke bounced around--not that there was anything particularly funny about it--that the man who had done so much to shape modern technology hadn’t really died at all, but rather had figured out how to upload himself into the Mac OS so he could live on with us, and with his products, forever. The notion was ostensibly so far out as to be ridiculous. But not everyone sees it that way.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-03/achieving-immortality-russian-mogul-wants-begin-putting-human-brains-robots-and-soon

Here is something else the 1% can spend their money on........

[RevStPatrick]

1. People alive today? Possibly, but probably not.

I won't have that opportunity, but maybe some kid born yesterday will.
I think that sort of thing is still at least a century away.
If we make it that long...

[Odin2005]

11. The technological singularity is only 20 years away.

I'll be only 46

[wendylaroux]

2. heard about this from son

doubt if i will be alive ,sounds awesome though.

[saras]

3. When they try, I think they will be unpleasantly surprised at the results

All the input from the body will be replaced by garbage, as we haven't done any serious research in understanding any of this since the pharma companies took over psychology. The "people" will rapidly go insane in ways we have no way of relating to.

Maybe a few hundred years after THAT, it might work. We're at the Leonardo DaVinci stage, not the H.G. Wells stage. The changes required are in human understanding, not technology, so they aren't going to happen quickly.

Realistically, I think if we do this for real, that it will be workers and not the 1% that it is done to, and it won't be done well, just well enough to replace a damaged worker's body with another functional one.

[kentauros]

4. So is this the beginning of full-prosthetic cyborg bodies?

For example, the following opening of the movie "Ghost in the Shell" titled "The Making of A Cyborg"

[flobee1]

7. Be careful what you wish for

The gist of that movie is how people were being hacked into and their minds replaced so that they would do others bidding.

ghost transfer by microsoft? no thanks!

[kentauros]

8. Yes, I am well-aware of what that movie (and subsequent series)

is all about. And Section 9 solved the case

Also, I would suspect that were that technology to be invented, and by the Japanese, that they wouldn't bother with any existing branded-OS. It would be their own proprietary OS, assuming it even worked that way at all.

What's the "OS" of the human mind?

[flobee1]

12. does that mean sick days will be replaced by

"reboot" or "virus scan" days?


it turns my stomach now to see how the news channels and advertising has such influence over people-just imagine having a programmable brain?


I can just imagine the effect adware would have on you-walking down the street shouting "free viagra" at the top of your lungs! lol

[kentauros]

13. Cyborgs don't need Viagra

But I would guess there would have to be laws against such "infiltration". Otherwise, who'd want to become a cyborg at all?

Now, there's no reason why you couldn't walk down the street naked, just painted (or projecting) the latest advertising, like "car-boards" now. You get a deposit to your account once a month for participating, and then it all shuts down when your contract expires

And who wouldn't want to see naked cyborgs when they look like The Major or Batou?

[Vincardog]

5. I hope not. When I see the haters growing ever more powerful the only solace

I have is knowing that eventually they will die and there is the chance that their evil can be reversed.
Can you imagine if Murdock or Limpballs became an immortal being?
Or worse imagine Darth Chenney.

[Fumesucker]

6. I Have No Mouth..

And I Must Scream

If you're still pumped on the idea after you read this then by all means carry on..

http://www.surfturk.com/endoftheworld/ihavenomouth.html

[kentauros]

9. However, Robinette Broadhead (of the Heechee Saga)

didn't have a problem with or being a "programmed personality" such as in The Annals of the Heechee

[Odin2005]

10. Yup. I plan on living forever!

[IDemo]

14. I find this and the general "Beam me up, Scotty" premise to be flawed

In either case, you're proposing that a sufficiently close copy of yourself not only thinks it's you, it is you, when in fact it is nothing more than a backup. Your backup may have all of your memories, thinking habits, likes and dislikes and be utterly indistinguishable from the original you, but the original is still an entity unto itself. Having a spare to go into work for you on occasion might be great, but the idea that such an "upload" makes death immaterial for the original is nonsensical.