I'd like to pose the same question here that I did over on the biology board: how close do any of you think we are to fully being able to scan, interface with, manipulate, and copy the complete, functioning brain of a human being? 20 years? 30? 50? more? Do you think it would require physical contact of electrodes with each single neuron, or could it perhaps be done "wirelessly"? What about the development of nanotechnology, if it did require physical contact, perhaps billions of nano-electrodes. Since my idea of a truly safe, stable, LONG-TERM immortality (real immortality, as in actually NEVER dying....ever) is to not only have my original body made physically immortal by means of perhaps gene-therapy, but to in fact live as something of a network- having many back-up copies of my 'mind' (not just memories, I'm more than just the sum of my memories, I'm also my personality and everything else) and, hopefully, to have them wired together with me in constant communication: that way, I expand to exist as sort of a hive and spread my existence across that whole network, even perhaps sending some to other planets in the future, or loading some of them into probes going out into deep space, faster than someone who might want me completely dead would ever be able to follow, and employing the most unbreakable security measures to ensure that a virus introduced to one part of me could never completely wipe me out- I could even picture, many millennia down the road, sending pieces of me through wormholes to potential other universes to survive even the possible collapse of this one. There could be many bodies, and even as a few of them inevitably die of disease or accident, there is still enough of me that I don't feel like I'm dead, even if it was my original that died. I know there is a possibility of having people like Agent Smith from the last Matrix movie like this (I also realize that everyone always references the Matrix movies when discussing these topics but oh well, it's convenient), but I'm more worried about, would this be possible? Does anyone know whether a person would be able to operate two or more separate bodies simultaneously, even with twice the processing power? Of course humans were never designed to function that way, but humans were never designed to do lots of things that they regularly do today. I just, once again, want people's opinions not on if but when.
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