Ray Kurzweil & Uploading: Just Say "No" - Part 1

Part 1 of Nicholas Agar's panel presentation at the American Philosophical Associations Pacific Division Conference, 2009

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• Ray Kurzweil
• uploading
• wet jack
• minds
• Artificial Intelligence
• AI

[NikoKun]

Forget about mind "backups" or "copying". I'm only interested in MOVING. (backing up memories may be useful, but memories aren't the same as consciousness.)

Creating a separately conscious copy of myself would be pointless, I'd rather move MY consciousness to technology, if that were possible. Which one day will probably be the case. It could essentially make us immortal.

Moving into our technology allows us to increase intelligence, and evolve to become even more survivable. The next step.

[setaitransmedia]

ENJOY EXTINCTION LUDDITES

[FeelOfFriction]

@kaiserx30

Paranoid freak.

[keiichicom]

@NikoKun Hi, that is a good idea, I have heard about it before

I hope that we get an artificial body or VR body to go along with it..., or maybe we can construct an imaginary VR body using our new nanobot brain.

btw, you probably have heard that scientists have already successfully replaced brain frog neurons with artificial ones.

[NikoKun]

@keiichicom Well, I'm thinking more along the lines of Nanobots, which would be designed to function like real braincells, and a gradual process that slowly replaced the individual cells in your brain, with those nanobots, and eventually offloadin their functions to a simulated brain, in such a real-time networked manor that you remain YOU. In effect transferring you gradually to a simulated construct.

[keiichicom]

@NikoKun me too, i wonder if quantum teleportation when it is more advanced can handle the moving (since the original gets destroyed)...

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

5:45

Wow, that was a terrible strawman...

[gliderman19]

It won't be silicone though. Carbon tubes or something else. It won't be computers as we know them today.

[gliderman19]

Yep i feel the same about this. I will move/evolve my conscious when that is available, not just copy/upload it.

[tecnoblix]

This is going to sound rude but I just want to make a point.

Oh no! Things will be messy! Things will be complicated! We can't have that. Oh why didn't we just stick to "God did it"? I don't want to experience anything new or strange. I fear change. It's bad.

LOL. Just wanted to put it into perspective.

[NikoKun]

What really scares me about all this, is that people like this guy probably WILL try and stop people from uploading. But it isn't the people uploading that will be the problem, it will be these anti-uploaders, who will likely turn violent over this issue, first.