On the issue of destructive scans, and uploads being a different person:
Personally, I do not believe destructive scans of the brain, or other copying methods, will be the method for uploading. Instead I think, if it happens, it will involve large numbers of nano-bots capable of replacing and emulating the original biological brain cells.
The process would be a gradual replacement, along the lines of cell-by-cell, just as the body naturally replaces cells. But that's only the first step..
This gradual replacement method would most likely preserve the original consciousness and experience-line of that person. There would be no sudden moment of transfer or copying, and the vast majority of cell-to-cell communication would continue completely unharmed. To the person experiencing it, they would simply be living daily life, although with eventual cognitive enhancements. But even at this point, it is not yet an "upload". A physical brain still exists.. So after this step is done..
After the replacement process, each nano-brain-cell would then transfer its function to a virtually run emulation of itself, still kept in continual communication with all other "cells" it is linked too. This too would have to be a gradual process, done in small numbers at a time, but likely much faster than the first process.
By preserving communication with all neighboring "cells", and between the physical and virtual, using high speed network communication, the "uploadee" would be unharmed.
My brief discussion of non-destructive scanning is at 2:54. It is harder, and thus farther out.
I don't think nanites making a brain in a human cranium would be very useful. What would be the point? That's even harder than a typical non-destructive scan - and leaves the agent stuck inside a human body for no apparent reason.
On the issue of destructive scans, and uploads being a different person:
Personally, I do not believe destructive scans of the brain, or other copying methods, will be the method for uploading. Instead I think, if it happens, it will involve large numbers of nano-bots capable of replacing and emulating the original biological brain cells.
The process would be a gradual replacement, along the lines of cell-by-cell, just as the body naturally replaces cells. But that's only the first step..
NikoKun 2 years ago
This gradual replacement method would most likely preserve the original consciousness and experience-line of that person. There would be no sudden moment of transfer or copying, and the vast majority of cell-to-cell communication would continue completely unharmed. To the person experiencing it, they would simply be living daily life, although with eventual cognitive enhancements. But even at this point, it is not yet an "upload". A physical brain still exists.. So after this step is done..
NikoKun 2 years ago
After the replacement process, each nano-brain-cell would then transfer its function to a virtually run emulation of itself, still kept in continual communication with all other "cells" it is linked too. This too would have to be a gradual process, done in small numbers at a time, but likely much faster than the first process.
By preserving communication with all neighboring "cells", and between the physical and virtual, using high speed network communication, the "uploadee" would be unharmed.
NikoKun 2 years ago
My brief discussion of non-destructive scanning is at 2:54. It is harder, and thus farther out.
I don't think nanites making a brain in a human cranium would be very useful. What would be the point? That's even harder than a typical non-destructive scan - and leaves the agent stuck inside a human body for no apparent reason.
tmtyler 2 years ago