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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
If that happens ... being able to upload our brain ... I want a BIG floppy, with lot's of RAM. 
I don't know how realistic that is though. Cryonics and DNA mapping seem like a better ticket to immortality to me. I don't think I'd count on my immortality being entrusted to highly fallible electonic devices. Certainly the current state of computer reliability isn't very reassuring. They're making computers more and more powerful, but they seem to still be having problems with the nuts and bolts end of things. |
Yeah how great would it be to wake up in the morning and instead of seeing your beautiful wife next to you, all you get is an error screen!?
I don't necessarily believe it will ever be possible (to upload) but I do believe that when it comes down to it, we're nothing but organic computers. Most human traits (emotion, motivation, the "self", heck even religion) we can explain (albeit not fully... yet) through neuroscience. The only thing left it would appear is consciousness, which I believe is tied into the development of language.
If we can ever get a grasp on what makes us "think" then we're well on our way to creating robots that can do everything we can. Except, as you pointed out, the technology has a long way to go to get to that point.