Monday, 10 August 2015

How if We don’t need bodies?

What if … We don’t need bodies?

Uploading our minds onto computers could be the future. But cutting ties with our animal roots would raise ethical questions for which we don't yet have answers
What if … We don't need bodies?
Is anybody in there? (Image: Skizzomat)

MINDS result from bodies, but that link can be compromised. If I severed my spinal cord at the neck, I’d get no inputs from most of my body, says Michael Graziano, a neuroscientist at Princeton University. “But I’m still a person, I still have experience, I can still think.”
What if we could separate mind from body entirely? Many now believe that we will transfer our minds on to computers, whether in a matter of decades or hundreds of years. “I would say that it’s not only possible, it’s inevitable,” says Graziano.
What would life as an upload be like? We’d still need outside stimulation. Cut off entirely, a brain would suffer sensory deprivation, says Anders Sandberg at the University of Oxford. “It’s going to fall asleep, then hallucinate and probably gently go mad.


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  1. AlfachemistryTuesday, January 12, 2016 12:53:00 pm

    Then I was wondering whether the human mind could exist any more.

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