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Features download brain to computer
Imagine a computer so advanced that it can keep the contents of the human brain. The Google engineer ray Kurzweil optimistically suggests that in 2045 it will be possible. Many technicians are looking for ways to move the person in a non-organic media, "prolonging life to the level of immortality." I have a gut feeling that they will not succeed. But suppose I'm wrong. If it were possible, could keep you before death the contents of your skull into the computer? Or would you prefer to die as died our ancestors, going into nothingness, or into something beyond human perception?
The fundamental promise of life extension or even immortality would tempt many. But it seems to me that these people risk to be in a position very close to hell.
And descendants may curse them for it.
Let us first note that justice as we know it today allows or even demands that the punishment for some crimes occurred even after the maximum possible time. For example, Hans Lipsis, which to 2013, when 93-year-old appeared on the front page of the Newspapers, has already exceeded average life expectancy. At that time he lived in South-West Germany, where he was arrested by the police. He wanted to press charges for the murders he committed seventy years earlier, Lipshes served as a guard in Auschwitz.
Now imagine an alternative outcome. Technology is advancing faster than expected; a year old offender involved in the Holocaust, uploads his consciousness before it opens; then, five or six years later, it brings up evidence of his crimes. I believe that the vast majority would prefer to punish him for his mass murder, and physical imprisonment would have quickly found an alternative. Perhaps his mind had blocked access to new information or communication with others; might have been introduced some other type of punishment.
But for how long?
Having the mind of Adolf Hitler, six million years incorporeal punishment would it be for one year for each dead Jew.
But I think that Genghis Khan, who wrought cruelty in all its forms less than a Millennium ago, could count on a certain sympathy, we discover that the contemporaries after the death has captivated his mind as punishment for mass murder. Whether it is discovered in the mental chains after eight centuries of suffering, performed the requirements of his release and debate about the application of current morality to the events of the past centuries. While pragmatists would argue about the consequences of his military victories a century later. Perhaps he would have been released in connection with its inconceivably vast period of time and the fact that his sacrifice for us is infinitely far. Or maybe he was forgotten in prison, as has happened with many people within the existing system.
It's a wild and speculative assumptions, but I just want to illustrate a short thesis: the fundamental life extension so confuse and distort our ordinary concept of justice that is now impossible to predict how future Americans will react to the new reality. Monsters of the past can be punished for six million years... or just for a period of three to four times longer than stomatognatico term which a US court has awarded this humble laundryman. It's hard for us to speculate, even when we think only about our descendants in the country, a moral code which is very similar to ours.
In fact, it is not even clear we would be able now to do the right thing.
If today's Americans miraculously took custody of the servers that contain disembodied minds of everyone ever mentioned in the Newspapers of the country, starting with the first, would we punish the former Nazi leaders? There would be a protest movement, standing for to killers of native Americans and the slave called to justice? What about the people behind the Tuskegee syphilis study? Or leaders in the cities that adhered to Jim crow laws humiliating blacks?
To answer that within the framework of the thought experiment is relatively simple.
The Americans of the future will have to overcome a lot of similar contradictions, if generation will download themselves one after the other. And isn't it strange to imagine a future in which the masses will look back on us with disdain because of Bull Connor (nickname Theophile Connor, Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama from 1937 to 1952. Is a symbol of racism and discrimination of the black population — approx. editor) and its analogues. Perhaps in the year 2215 the Americans eating their artificially grown synthetic meat, will be horrified to look at those of us who all their lives killed animals to eat them. To be fair, they will be blamed for killing animals, and adding ten years for the maintenance of them in harsh conditions before his death.
Perhaps everyone who lived in the era of fossil fuels, sentenced to a punishment, the duration of which will depend on the degree of harm we have caused to our fragile planet.
Possibly, had an abortion or those who have the family had more than two children, will be in the doghouse. Perhaps Hylophobia version of Sharia will prevail, and most of those who downloaded your subconscious mind in the West, will be tortured for a whole Millennium until the course of history will not change and the power will not come from other people.
Of course, it may happen that future generations will not be so inclined to punish, I would imagine. But will it last forever? In any case, people will be forced to decide whether they would like to upload your consciousness into a computer, not knowing what the future they are preparing.
However, even now we do not know what awaits us in the future.
Tomorrow may start a nuclear war. Those of us who survive, will live the rest of his days in agony. But they will be relatively short. A fundamental renewal of life through the consciousness transfer risks to produce inconceivably long, probably endless torment. And even if future generations will avoid that deliberate torture, it doesn't help us.
It's hard to imagine a civilization very capable network administrators who age after age to keep the data intact and the equipment is functioning.
But, maybe, they will do it.
So let's imagine an incredibly stable equipment, which keeps the consciousness of man. This computer is connected to a generator that receives energy from nuclear waste as they decay. Moreover, it is in a vault deep under ground, though connected with the rest of humanity by means of cables. A hundred years of disembodied mind enjoys all that he can learn all the knowledge of mankind; each from other uploaded minds; and this universe of entertaining information updated day by day.
And then the SUPERVOLCANO explodes.
All bodily humanity is destroyed, like much of the disembodied. But not the computer in the bunker with nuclear waste. Its connection with other computers are broken. But the consciousness lives, with nothing, except for the initial download and of McAfee antivirus, which no one was able to remove. The clock is ticking and this man endures the decline of life on Earth: 15.7 million years locked up with himself, while iodine-129, and feeds it to the computer does not run out. As they say, "nice move!"
Oddly enough, the most serious barrier to seeking immortality may be the rejection of life extension, yet they will not provide a way to kill himself voluntarily.published
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: smoozi.ru/technology/computer_human.html
The fundamental promise of life extension or even immortality would tempt many. But it seems to me that these people risk to be in a position very close to hell.
And descendants may curse them for it.
Let us first note that justice as we know it today allows or even demands that the punishment for some crimes occurred even after the maximum possible time. For example, Hans Lipsis, which to 2013, when 93-year-old appeared on the front page of the Newspapers, has already exceeded average life expectancy. At that time he lived in South-West Germany, where he was arrested by the police. He wanted to press charges for the murders he committed seventy years earlier, Lipshes served as a guard in Auschwitz.
Now imagine an alternative outcome. Technology is advancing faster than expected; a year old offender involved in the Holocaust, uploads his consciousness before it opens; then, five or six years later, it brings up evidence of his crimes. I believe that the vast majority would prefer to punish him for his mass murder, and physical imprisonment would have quickly found an alternative. Perhaps his mind had blocked access to new information or communication with others; might have been introduced some other type of punishment.
But for how long?
Having the mind of Adolf Hitler, six million years incorporeal punishment would it be for one year for each dead Jew.
But I think that Genghis Khan, who wrought cruelty in all its forms less than a Millennium ago, could count on a certain sympathy, we discover that the contemporaries after the death has captivated his mind as punishment for mass murder. Whether it is discovered in the mental chains after eight centuries of suffering, performed the requirements of his release and debate about the application of current morality to the events of the past centuries. While pragmatists would argue about the consequences of his military victories a century later. Perhaps he would have been released in connection with its inconceivably vast period of time and the fact that his sacrifice for us is infinitely far. Or maybe he was forgotten in prison, as has happened with many people within the existing system.
It's a wild and speculative assumptions, but I just want to illustrate a short thesis: the fundamental life extension so confuse and distort our ordinary concept of justice that is now impossible to predict how future Americans will react to the new reality. Monsters of the past can be punished for six million years... or just for a period of three to four times longer than stomatognatico term which a US court has awarded this humble laundryman. It's hard for us to speculate, even when we think only about our descendants in the country, a moral code which is very similar to ours.
In fact, it is not even clear we would be able now to do the right thing.
If today's Americans miraculously took custody of the servers that contain disembodied minds of everyone ever mentioned in the Newspapers of the country, starting with the first, would we punish the former Nazi leaders? There would be a protest movement, standing for to killers of native Americans and the slave called to justice? What about the people behind the Tuskegee syphilis study? Or leaders in the cities that adhered to Jim crow laws humiliating blacks?
To answer that within the framework of the thought experiment is relatively simple.
The Americans of the future will have to overcome a lot of similar contradictions, if generation will download themselves one after the other. And isn't it strange to imagine a future in which the masses will look back on us with disdain because of Bull Connor (nickname Theophile Connor, Commissioner of public safety in Birmingham, Alabama from 1937 to 1952. Is a symbol of racism and discrimination of the black population — approx. editor) and its analogues. Perhaps in the year 2215 the Americans eating their artificially grown synthetic meat, will be horrified to look at those of us who all their lives killed animals to eat them. To be fair, they will be blamed for killing animals, and adding ten years for the maintenance of them in harsh conditions before his death.
Perhaps everyone who lived in the era of fossil fuels, sentenced to a punishment, the duration of which will depend on the degree of harm we have caused to our fragile planet.
Possibly, had an abortion or those who have the family had more than two children, will be in the doghouse. Perhaps Hylophobia version of Sharia will prevail, and most of those who downloaded your subconscious mind in the West, will be tortured for a whole Millennium until the course of history will not change and the power will not come from other people.
Of course, it may happen that future generations will not be so inclined to punish, I would imagine. But will it last forever? In any case, people will be forced to decide whether they would like to upload your consciousness into a computer, not knowing what the future they are preparing.
However, even now we do not know what awaits us in the future.
Tomorrow may start a nuclear war. Those of us who survive, will live the rest of his days in agony. But they will be relatively short. A fundamental renewal of life through the consciousness transfer risks to produce inconceivably long, probably endless torment. And even if future generations will avoid that deliberate torture, it doesn't help us.
It's hard to imagine a civilization very capable network administrators who age after age to keep the data intact and the equipment is functioning.
But, maybe, they will do it.
So let's imagine an incredibly stable equipment, which keeps the consciousness of man. This computer is connected to a generator that receives energy from nuclear waste as they decay. Moreover, it is in a vault deep under ground, though connected with the rest of humanity by means of cables. A hundred years of disembodied mind enjoys all that he can learn all the knowledge of mankind; each from other uploaded minds; and this universe of entertaining information updated day by day.
And then the SUPERVOLCANO explodes.
All bodily humanity is destroyed, like much of the disembodied. But not the computer in the bunker with nuclear waste. Its connection with other computers are broken. But the consciousness lives, with nothing, except for the initial download and of McAfee antivirus, which no one was able to remove. The clock is ticking and this man endures the decline of life on Earth: 15.7 million years locked up with himself, while iodine-129, and feeds it to the computer does not run out. As they say, "nice move!"
Oddly enough, the most serious barrier to seeking immortality may be the rejection of life extension, yet they will not provide a way to kill himself voluntarily.published
P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©
Source: smoozi.ru/technology/computer_human.html