Uploading Conciousness to Computer

[AFTT47]

A worm's mind has been mapped and uploaded to a robot. It's probably safe to say that a worm has no conscious though but in principle, you could do the same thing with a person.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology...vi-AA8GMIo

This link was posted by me (a < 30/30 guy) with permission from the moderator rexbeccarox.

[Darkstar]

A worm's mind has been mapped and uploaded to a robot.

That's wicked cool. And I don't usually use 'wicked' like that.

[Nope]

That is amazing.

[rexbeccarox]

That's SO cool!

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[Surgenator]

Small Caviet

Of course, the brain simulation still isn’t exact - for one, the researchers had to simplify the process that triggers an artificial neuron to fire.

Nevertheless, this is still fucking amazing.

[AFTT47]

I wonder how far our current technology can take this. Suppose you did this with a higher animal like a mouse. Would you then have a conscious machine?

[vorlon13]

That's SO cool!

I just want to point out to noobs or any lurkers who might register in the future that ATTF47 sent me a private message asking for permission to post the link, and explaining his motivation for wanting to post it. He read the rules, followed them, and hey! He got permission!

Thank you again, ATTF47

Weird, no ?
Denying the banhammer a victim will frustrate it. Do we want a frustrated banhammer ?

Could be dangerous . . . .

[FallentoReason]

I wonder how far our current technology can take this. Suppose you did this with a higher animal like a mouse. Would you then have a conscious machine?

I don't think that will ever be possible. Subjective experience can't be programmed, because if it can be traced back to a source (the cogs if you will) then it's an objective triviality.

[Surgenator]

I wonder how far our current technology can take this. Suppose you did this with a higher animal like a mouse. Would you then have a conscious machine?

Just thinking about the memory space needed for the mapping.
Human brain has ~100 billion neurons with each neuron makes over 1000 connections.
A mouse's brain is ~0.03% smaller in mass than a human brain.
If we assume the neurons between mouse and human are rougly the same, then a mouse will have 30 million neurons and 30 billion connections in total. You would need a 64bit integer to give each neuron a unique id. You will also need 64bit integers for each connection. So that is 64*(30 million + 30 billion) ~ 240 GB of memory just to store the map. This doesn't included other variables (like activation thresholds) for processing.

Back to your question, we have 1 TB drives now. So we probably can do the same thing with a mouse as with the worm with our current technology.

[Ravenshire]

I wonder how far our current technology can take this. Suppose you did this with a higher animal like a mouse. Would you then have a conscious machine?

I don't think that will ever be possible. Subjective experience can't be programmed, because if it can be traced back to a source (the cogs if you will) then it's an objective triviality.

I think a sufficiently complex computer could be used to accurately map and model the human mind, even a specific person/personality. After all, it's all just electro-chemical reactions. Our current digital computers won't be able to manage it, but quantum computing...

Yes, I know that quantum computers have been a long time coming and are still at the fringe of computer development, but once EA figures out how to port their crappy games...