The HBO series "Westworld" is really thought provoking...triggered a (completely unrelated) thread I'm about to try to start...
The HBO series "Westworld" is really thought provoking...triggered a (completely unrelated) thread I'm about to try to start...
What is the purpose of your presence?
maybe this desire to upload consciousness, or presence of self/being into some mechanical mechanism comes from the idea that one is not eternal already...
the contracted awareness already demonstrates this concept that self-awareness is extinguished at death which seems to be the dominant fear driving this exploration/experimentation...
but would the actual presence be contained in such a matrix or would it merely be just a clever copy of whatever patterns of thought were running at the time of imprint?.... and how would one know this as an observer of the process, if the transfer was an actual being or merely a virtual copy of the processes of the being which could be copied..... and what other beings could perhaps hijack this process and doppleganger this, and how could such an identity theft be determined?
awareness, we have how much of absolute awareness....maybe a very little..... just our eyes alone perceive such a small fraction of what could be seen....and we operate on the basic 5 senses for the most part, and that rather dimly even on the good days ..... so what then of the other possible senses....so we are speculating with only a fraction of the data
I think what you are describing (transhumanism?) may be fundamentally different (and worth distinguishing) from the more popularized idea of AI where machines "come to life/self awareness"
I think our desire to transport our consciousness into a more lasting machine than our biological bodies is based on our fear of death (or desire to stay on this plane of existence)
I think the idea of creating of a new consciousness is maybe missing the mark...arrogant even? A strange path to choose, a justifiable fear?
What is the purpose of your presence?