Timeline for How to Blend (Digital) Minds
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| Mar 29, 2016 at 18:25 | comment | added | Brien Malone | I think it is worth thinking a bit deeper about exactly what your commodity is. You want a bunch of Stephen Hawkings presumably because you want access to his analytical side and his capability for imagination. Do you also want his pettiness? His petulance? (I'm not throwing stones, we all have traits like this that we dislike in ourselves.) If you have a model of his brain, is it aware that it is a facsimile? Does it become depressed? Does it resist attempts to interact with it? Does your brain in a box exist in a virtual universe that includes some sort of avatar, giving it senses? | |
| Mar 29, 2016 at 0:17 | comment | added | Xandar The Zenon | I would think somewhere between emulators and seizure. After all, some people would destroy themselves mentally if fused with someone who has diametrically opposing views. And every mind works different, it would be like different softwares trying to fuse. I think you would have to check every item and pathway all the way through the mind to make sure it will all work. Bottom line, not feasible. At least in my version of your scenario. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 22:19 | comment | added | Superbest | What sort of data structure are the minds stored in? Is it object oriented? | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 21:02 | answer | added | D.Spetz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:57 | comment | added | ryanyuyu | Like Dollhouse? | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 19:05 | history | edited | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 16:04 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 4 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:46 | comment | added | AmiralPatate | If you have complete disregard for ethics (why would you be messing with mind if you didn't) then you could probably create hacked schizonphrenic Uploads that would be amalgations of other legit Uploads. Assuming all you need is something that will do the specific thing you want it to do without question, and what happens after that is none of your concern. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:30 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 2 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:23 | history | edited | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:20 | comment | added | user3652621 | @Avernium, the standard approach for neural simulation consists of mapping neural connections and creating a physically-equivalent emulation of the flows of neurotransmitters and the channel activation patterns along the axons, including new dendritic growth and attrition. Nothing out of the current realm of laboratory work, just quadrillions of times more efficient and faster. I imagine something like a very powerful and high-res CAT-scan as the mind-reading device. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:11 | comment | added | Avernium | I'm not sure you'll find a truly meaningful answer without some knowledge of how you're storing these minds digitally in the first place. If we've managed to get that far then you're probably already hand waving. | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:03 | answer | added | Green | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 15:01 | history | edited | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 14:56 | answer | added | AndreiROM | timeline score: 8 | |
| Mar 28, 2016 at 14:48 | history | edited | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 28, 2016 at 14:42 | history | asked | user3652621 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |