"I want to live forever in AI"

Even if it were possible to scan the contents of your brain and reproduce them in a digital form, there's no reason that scan would be anything more than bits of data on the digital system. You could have a database of your brain... but it wouldn't be conscious.

No one has any idea how to replicate the activity of the brain. As far as I know there aren't any practical proposals in this area. All we have are vague theories about what might be going on, and a limited grasp of neurochemistry. It will be a very long time before reproducing the functions of a conscious mind is anything more than fantasy.

Consciousness and conscience are not the same thing, this naming is horrible

The game SOMA represents this case the best. Highly recommended!

If anyone's interested in a hard sci-fi show about uploading consciousness they should watch the animated series Pantheon. Not only does the technology feel realistic, but the way it's created and used by big tech companies is uncomfortably real.

The show got kinda screwed over on advertising and fell to obscurity because of streaming service fuck ups and region locking, and I can't help but wonder if it's at least partially because of its harsh criticisms of the tech industry.

Soma is a wonderful game that covers this type of thing. It does make you wonder what consciousness really is... Maybe the ability to perceive and store information, along with retrieving that information, is enough to provide an illusion of consistent self?

Or maybe it's some competely strange system, unkown to science. Who knows?

The comic sans makes this even deeper

What if you do it in a ship of theseus type of way. Like, swapping each part of the brain with an electronic one slowly until there is no brain left.

Wonder if that will work.

This prospect doesnt bother me in the least. I've already been replaced 5 times in my life so far. The soul is a spook. Let my clone smother me in my sleep and deal with the IRS instead.

A copy is fine. I can still seek vengeance on my enemies from beyond the grave.

would've made more sense if it was rust

(or is the copy intential here?)

throws UserNotPaidException

Whats the difference between void fn(Type& var) and void fn(Type* var)?

the plot of

in a nutshell?

Related book recommendation!!

Kil'n People by David Brin - it's a futuristic Murder Mystery Novel about a society where people copy their consciousnesses to temporary clay clones to do mundane tasks for them. Got some really interesting discussions about what constitutes personhood!

There's a cool computer game that makes this point as part of the story line... I'd recommend it, but I can't recommend it in this context without it being a spoiler!

I've had this thought and felt it was so profound I should write a short story about it. Now I see this meme and I feel dumb.

I know myself deeply enough to be totally fine with a copy. I’d be my own copy’s pet if it came to that. I trust me.

That's why I'm going for brain in a jar.

void teleport(Person person);

It needs an empty catch block

The best part is, unless that function name is misleading, it doesn't matter how the data is passed; a copy is being sent out over TCP/IP to another device regardless.

I had to turn my phone sideways and go cross-eyed to spot the difference.

Sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that

I don't get it

Are you sure the roon of today is a reference to yesterday's roon?

everyone watch this clip and tell me what you think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szzVlQ653as

what if it's year 3000 right now and we're all playing a game?

Intellisense commands you to fix your method

What needs to happen for it to actually work.

bool uploadConsciousness(Consciousness&& Conscience) {