Do you think they will ever be able to transfer someone's mind onto a comput

Question: Do you think they will ever be able to transfer someone's mind onto a computer!? If so when!?
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If there is a way for a computer to catalog and compute a person's memory and behaviors then it can store or even duplicate a person's personality!

When that happens bodies and computers and anything that can house our personality will only be a vessel and "teleportation travel" will be as easy as e-mailing our personality as an attachment to any of the robot bodies in any city in the world!

When!? Depends on when the economy will allow it!. The economy tends to dictate how fast technology reaches mainstream and at what rate!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Yes, and I think it will be sooner than people think!Www@QuestionHome@Com

how is this a philosophy question!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

It is a philosophy question!. Haven't you ever seen AI, the movie!? I believe we will have that technology someday!. I give it 20 years, if there was funds in research and development!. There's already a program where the mouse moves with the mind's thinkingWww@QuestionHome@Com

First of all, it could be argued that your brain ALREADY is a computer!. Just biological one with a tendancy toward analog instead of digital processing!. But that's not really what you're asking about!.

The main obstacle to building a computer capable of simulating a human brain is that we cannot make one powerful enough in some respects!. Human brains have abysmal information storage capacities and rates, but what they excel at instead is being able to filter and handle huge amounts of simultaneous input!. In computer terms, we're talking about a ludicrous RAM and clock speed, on the order of a hundred million megs and MIPS, respectively!. Estimates suggest that we may have computers of such a capacity in a few decades, but those will be new and ridiclously expensive at that time - the kind of thing that only governments and major corporations can afford!. If you want a desktop brain to transfer into, we're probably talking about a much longer time!.

And that completely ignores the problem of transferring from one to the other, which is probably the hardest part of the problem!. We would require the capacity to determine the specific electric potential at virtually every spot on each of your hundred billion neurons!. Perhaps we could guess if we measured your neural activity over a very long time!. And keep in mind that the activity of outer neurons would mask that of inner ones!. It would probably be easier to just start someone with a man-made computer instead of a brain instead of trying to solve such an intractable problem of measurement!.

In other words, it's not impossible, but don't hold your breath!. I'd give it a century at least and when it first starts happening it won't be for natural biologicals such as you and me!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No, i don't think so, but maybe interesting to try, also maybe you should ask, who's mind would be best to start with 1st, Stephen Hawkins maybe!. Mind you I also maybe, wouldn't mind being one of the first to try!. erm, on the other hand, maybe somehow, someones memories, knowledge, transfer all their knowledge and memory's into a computer, not mind!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

No!. Computers are too stupid to handle the human brain (unless it's the brain of George W!. Bush or Dick Cheney)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com