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RE: You've just successfully uploaded your mind. What are your plans for your future?
Woah! Awesome imagineering here! My plans; after the first upload, I would be looking to upload myself into a starship. Even without FTL travel, that's sure to be a laugh.
Maybe I'll try some earth bound machinery as well; essentially, I want to experience life beyond a biological level. I think I'd hang around Jupiter for awhile, create various vessels to traverse the atmosphere. Plus several adjuncts of my mind placed into various observation probes.
Work on space bending tech, shoot small probes with parts of me towards systems with a good chance of life, use lasers to speed them up to 10-20% c, and see how it goes!
Shit man, thanks; I'm going to have a good old fantasise about this later; what would your plans be?
It's a very interesting question to see how we think we would act in that scenario as we would be be god-like entities. We would be able to explore our galaxy as well as an infinitude of virtual realities.
I'd spend most of my time in VR. There's so much more possibility because you're not confined by the physical laws of this reality. For me, physical reality would be the bottom layer of the infrastructure, basically where matter is turned into computational resources in order to run the higher layers of VR. I'd have systems set in place to alert me of any changes in my surroundings in the physical world in order to not get caught off guard.
I've always said that I'd want to build my own Matrioshka brain all for myself in order to massively increase my intelligence. I wouldn't just build a Matrioshka brain, I'd also build Shkadov thrusters as well so I could move my Matrioshka brain around. I'd send out probes across the galaxy to find other unoccupied stars and add their matter and energy to my own in order to grow and become even more intelligent. Others would be doing the same thing and some would be forming collective brains, so I'd create a network with them. Ultimately, I think a galactic network would emerge through cooperation.
Given current theories of how the universe will end, I'd set to work in creating a galactic scale Matrioshka brain and Shkadov thrusters in order to repeat the process all again but with galaxies this time instead of solar systems and continue up the chain of matter.
Here's a thought. If it's possible to somehow use dark matter as computational matter, a network of entities of such intelligence would surely know. We can't be that far off fro having a good understanding of it - a few centuries at most. Given that's it's unlikely that we're the most intelligent life form in the galaxy, if dark matter can be used as computational matter, it probably already has been. The dark matter we see around galaxies could be galactic Matrioshka brains.
Yes; I like that; I hadn't really thought of VRs, simply because I was thinking of all the things I'd do in, the real. Funnily enough, I started a sci-fi series on Steemit, called; Asimov's Ghost.
In that, we all live on the Q-block (quantum blockchain), and sure enough, most of us, decide to spend most of our time on it.
However, technology also enhances our physical experience, through our nanoswarm and empLinks, giving us thousands of extra senses, and experiences.
I think the biggest problem with a galactic size Matrioshka brain, is the amount of time taken to process between each node. I guess with some kind of quantum tunnelling, that problem might be circumvented. If not, then the speed of light, is glacially slow, over those kinds of distances.
Cg
With regards to such large scale structures and the immortal nature of synthetic entities, I don't think they'll see time the way we currently do.
I'll be certain to checkout your Asimov's Ghost series.