{"id":102550,"date":"2020-02-19T14:22:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T22:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mind-uploading-cybernetic-immortality"},"modified":"2020-02-24T01:21:27","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T09:21:27","slug":"mind-uploading-cybernetic-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/mind-uploading-cybernetic-immortality","title":{"rendered":"Mind Uploading: Cybernetic Immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mind-uploading-cybernetic-immortality3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By definition, posthumanism (I choose to call it <em class=\"\">\u2018cyberhumanism\u2019<\/em>) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. By then, mind uploading could become a reality with gradual neuronal replacement, rapid advancements in Strong AI, massively parallel computing, and nanotechnology allowing us to directly connect our brains to the Cloud-based infrastructure of the Global Brain. Via interaction with our AI assistants, the GB will know us better than we know ourselves in all respects, so mind-transfer, or rather \u201cmind migration,\u201d for billions of enhanced humans would be seamless, sometime by mid-century.<\/p>\n<p>I hear this mantra over and over again \u2014 we don\u2019t know what consciousness is. Clearly, there\u2019s no consensus here but in the context of topic discussed, I would summarize my views, as follows: Consciousness is non-local, quantum computational by nature. There\u2019s only one Universal Consciousness. We individualize our conscious awareness through the filter of our nervous system, our \u201clocal\u201d mind, our very inner subjectivity, but consciousness itself, the self in a big sense, our \u201ccore\u201d self is universal, and knowing it through experience has been called enlightenment, illumination, awakening, or transcendence, through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Any container with a sufficiently integrated network of information patterns, with a certain optimal complexity, especially complex dynamical systems with biological or artificial brains (say, the coming AGIs) could be filled with consciousness at large in order to host an individual \u201creality cell,\u201d \u201cunit,\u201d or a \u201cnode\u201d of consciousness. This kind of individuated unit of consciousness is always endowed with free will within the constraints of the applicable set of rules (\u201cphysical laws\u201d), influenced by the larger consciousness system dynamics. Isn\u2019t too na\u00efve to presume that Universal Consciousness would instantiate phenomenality only in the form of <em class=\"\">\u201cbio\u201d<\/em>-logical avatars?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By definition, posthumanism (I choose to call it \u2018cyberhumanism\u2019) is to replace transhumanism at the center stage circa 2035. By then, mind uploading could become a reality with gradual neuronal replacement, rapid advancements in Strong AI, massively parallel computing, and nanotechnology allowing us to directly connect our brains to the Cloud-based infrastructure of the Global [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,269,4,1617,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-life-extension","category-nanotechnology","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102744,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102550\/revisions\/102744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}