The 2045 Avatar project

[RAMA]

In one of my many descriptions of mind uploading/foglet/AI descriptions I mentioned both software and hardware versions of future avatars and their evolution which could be a form of immortality. This organization is looking to create technologies closely paralleling predictions along these lines..all in the next 30 years.

http://www.seriouswonder.com/2045-initiatives-avatar-technologies-series-2/

Avatar Project timelines:

 

[Mary Ann]

I'm wary of any website which uses that many exclamation marks.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

So... how's the progress of Avatar A right now?

 

[Jedi_Master]

Avatar B is described as "An avatar in which a human brain is transplanted at the end of one's life". Has anyone been successful at keeping a brain functioning after a person dies?

 

[{ Emilia }]

Of course not but hey, they've got 5 years to figure it out. Or 10. That should easily be enough... right?

Okay... I guess not.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Of course not but hey, they've got 5 years to figure it out. Or 10. That should easily be enough... right?

Okay... I guess not.

That's what I thought. Seems to be an important step.

I appreciate the desire to extend one's life, but I must say the time frame of this project is a bit... unrealistic.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Maybe this is all a misunderstanding and they left a digit off the front of "2045."

See you all in 22045!

 

[Jedi_Master]

Maybe this is all a misunderstanding and they left a digit off the front of "2045."

See you all in 22045!

Had to do it.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic[/yt]

 

[{ Emilia }]

*sings*

"In the year... 2525..."

ETA: Damn, JM beat me to it.

 

[Jedi_Master]

I was using my remote control artificial body, and thanks to my Intel™ powered BCI, my response time as increased by 6.7893%

 

[Santaman]

Lets see, no, nope, not happening, not in 2025, 2035, 2045 or anywhere that close, try "In a few million years." maybe, if we haven't been so stupid to get extinct as a race anyway.

 

[Mudd]

This "mind-uploading" nonsense has nothing to do with individual immortality. It's about making a back-up copy of your ego.

 

[Mary Ann]

Exactly so.

 

[BillJ]

This "mind-uploading" nonsense has nothing to do with individual immortality. It's about making a back-up copy of your ego.

This is one of those things that will always be "right around the corner". I'm not sure how exactly making a copy of my brain gives me immortality? I'm still dead at the end of the party and I don't want something partying on in my name after I'm gone.

It just feels like some people who have shunned religion still need that "comfort" of something being there after their natural life ends.

 

[Santaman]

I honestly think it will be much easier to make a human being (biologically) immortal than all that mind copying/uploading/backing up nonsense..

 

[YellowSubmarine]

My ego is already backed up. I don't need fancy new nonsense. I've already written my name where it needs to be written. And I wasn't even arrested.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I'm wary of any website which uses that many exclamation marks.

In the actual article, there's only 2!

They just want us to know they're really, really serious!

Avatars are a serious business!

 

[Mudd]

This "mind-uploading" nonsense has nothing to do with individual immortality. It's about making a back-up copy of your ego.

This is one of those things that will always be "right around the corner". I'm not sure how exactly making a copy of my brain gives me immortality?

Well, of course it doesn't.

We still aren't close to understanding the so-called "hard problem" of consciousness. People who are in love with this notion of uploading minds just believe, with all the faith of medieval churchmen, that if we network enough computing power together and continue to improve expert systems that in some unexplainable way at some point the thing will become aware. Just because.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I wouldn't want to be a hologram.

 

[Melakon]

Has anyone been successful at keeping a brain functioning after a person dies?

Only if you believe They Saved Hitler's Brain is a documentary.