Upload your ego to a computer

[cistanche_enjoyer]

Would it be possible to upload your ego (meaning all your memories, emotions, character, preferences, etc.) to a computer/robot?

Imagine like a neuralink that stores your memories and gives you the possibility to access them on will. And there is a camera which you can become aware of as if it were a second pair of eyes.

Now imagine a full humanoid robot that you are able to control and fully experience. In this state, if your real body dies, can your ego get then trapped in that robot?

[Carl-Richard]

It assumes an outdated view of cognition ("the symbol-processing perspective"), of cognition being like data stored on a computer which can be transmitted and uploaded in different formats. A more updated view is embodied cognition, of cognition being something that is embedded in the very substrates that seem to correlate with it. In other words, to see and think like a human (and a particular human — yourself), you must be embodied in that particular human form.

But then you also have phenomena like astral projection and remote viewing and other non-physical forms of perception and cognition that go outside of merely human kinds of cognition. Even if your ego can't be uploaded mechanistically into a computer, you could step out of your ego and perceive the world outside of those constraints. Things like astral travel and remote viewing requires stilling of the mind and thus stilling of the ego to be performed in a controlled manner.

But to counter all that again, there is nothing impossible in principle about reality creating a scenario where mind-uploading seems to be happening. We just don't have good evidence of it happening from our local human perspective. Given an infinite universe with infinite potential and infinite forms, nothing is really impossible. But you probably don't care about that and are more interested in upcoming technological inventions in the next 50 years, and then I say probably not.

Edited June 12 by Carl-Richard

[Keryo Koffa]

Same Idea, discussed with Grok.

[PurpleTree]

Well i‘m trying to delete the ego though.

[Anton Rogachevski]

10 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

i‘m trying

You just found a new way for it propel itself

Your ego is good, it's valuable. You can only love it to death : )

The trouble is not with a strong ego, but it's the weak and inflated one that causes the bad behaviour. 

[Anton Rogachevski]

We didn't yet find a way for a computer to even have experience, or to even understand how the brain is doing it. It's the hard problem essentially. 

[UnbornTao]

Poor, poor robot.

[Breakingthewall]

6 hours ago, cistanche_enjoyer said:

Would it be possible to upload your ego (meaning all your memories, emotions, character, preferences, etc.) to a computer/robot?

Imagine like a neuralink that stores your memories and gives you the possibility to access them on will. And there is a camera which you can become aware of as if it were a second pair of eyes.

Now imagine a full humanoid robot that you are able to control and fully experience. In this state, if your real body dies, can your ego get then trapped in that robot?

It's impossible, because what you are is literally infinite. Imagine if they made that robot into a human, and you were still alive. You'd see him doing things you'd do... sort of. He'd never have your intuitions or your feelings. Life wouldn't flow through him the way it does through you. He'd just be a finite machine.

[Keryo Koffa]

9 hours ago, Breakingthewall said:

It's impossible, because what you are is literally infinite. Imagine if they made that robot into a human, and you were still alive. You'd see him doing things you'd do... sort of. He'd never have your intuitions or your feelings. Life wouldn't flow through him the way it does through you. He'd just be a finite machine.

What is Electricity and how does consciousness animate the body?

[Wilhelm44]

Perhaps unrelated but interesting.

Parasite takes over brain of dead insect, and keeps it moving.