Our brains must be augmented with tech first, then uploads are trivial.
Start with a calculator, learn how to manipulate it and read it like proprioception. At some point we have an LLM on a chip in our head and updates to that update our consiousness.
That sort of tech would open some really interesting doors. If the human mind is augmented in one way or another, it becomes difficult to tell where the human part ends and machine begins.
Once you take that to its logical conclusion, you being to ask questions like, what’s the difference between a human mind and a machine mind. Is there a meaningful difference?
You could augment a human mind with machine parts, live your normal life and continue to augment more and more as your organic cells gradually die over the course of several decades. Once the last organic bits die of old age, there’s nothing but machine left and your transition to a digital life form is complete.
I suspect it’ll be the other way around.
Our brains must be augmented with tech first, then uploads are trivial.
Start with a calculator, learn how to manipulate it and read it like proprioception. At some point we have an LLM on a chip in our head and updates to that update our consiousness.
That sort of tech would open some really interesting doors. If the human mind is augmented in one way or another, it becomes difficult to tell where the human part ends and machine begins.
Once you take that to its logical conclusion, you being to ask questions like, what’s the difference between a human mind and a machine mind. Is there a meaningful difference?
You could augment a human mind with machine parts, live your normal life and continue to augment more and more as your organic cells gradually die over the course of several decades. Once the last organic bits die of old age, there’s nothing but machine left and your transition to a digital life form is complete.