Augmented Eternity
If you are a fan of Netflix shows like the Black Mirror, you would have come across the concept of uploading your mind to a digital device. Making a digital copy of your consciousness and letting it live elsewhere is called Augmented Eternity. The other example could be the scene in the movie, “Man of Steel” in which Superman’s father Jor-el appears as a hologram in order to interact with his son millennia after he died.
So how practical is this Augmented Eternity? According to the renowned futurist and the head of AI division in Google, Ray Kurzweil predicts that human beings will be able to upload their minds into a digital substrate by 2045. Well, there is nothing physically stopping us from achieving this other than the limits of computing power. Since the limits of computing power are gradually improving over time, this is a very plausible scenario.
The following graph shows a comparison between the improvement in computing power vs the equivalent to an animal/human brain. It is worth noting that where 2018 falls in the graph.
Augmented Eternity also creates some interesting questions. On a digital substrate, a consciousness can live indefinitely providing immortality. Also if one deletes this digital file, will it be considered murder? If this becomes a possibility, practically everyone would want to preserve their minds. Who will pay for the maintenance of the minds of those that are dead?
So what do you think of Augmented Eternity? Leave your comments below.
Raises a lot of fascinating, philosophical questions, right? Is it really still consciousness after the upload? Is murder still murder when a physical body isn't involved?
I would lean toward the idea we're still generations away from people really getting into this. Tech has a long way to go and the concept is still radically foreign to most. Still... would love to see this kind of future take off.
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