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God, reminds me of Soma.
That game fucked me up so badly.

I’m saying this before I start the video, what do you do if the thing holding your digital Brain is hit with an emp? Since they fry wherever electronics they hit, wouldn’t that digitally kill you? Because if so, I think I’ll keep my flesh bag

"you might be having an endless psychotic breakdown"
Thank goodness this technology is out of reach. There are some aspects of the universe we are simply not meant to know

I've already uploaded what's left of my mind to floppy disc

On the future that we had this technology, knowing important things and ruling the world would be some super minds' job and mortal minds would be so lazy to learn something new I guess.

I think the most feasible way for it to work would be the way Simulacrums work in the TitanFall universe, still alive head and and brain that transmits thoughts to the computer mind of the synthetic body

In the Beginning, your Human animation was simple, now your animation has gone more complex, At the very beginning of the video I see a person and to me that 2d person actually almost looked like 3d animation. I love science and space and things that are cool. You did an outstanding job on this video. 👍

The animation is just so sick!!! Illustrator is hard so props to the animators!!!

I know what mind upload is thanks to cells to singularity

Who is watching from the future

The process of discombobulation is very deep and beautiful, we first collect the horse poop and soak it in left over Belle Delphine bathwater and let it dry in the sun for a day, now we collect the left over Among us Potion from N&A productions, we then grab the holy water for later usage. Now 1 day later the horse poop is doing great, now we take the horse poop and pour Among Us potion from N&A Productions over it and spray it with holy water, it should be like a cement substance now, we let it dry for 2 hours, now it should be as heavy as a brick and feel like one too, we then collect samples of coolen down magma, we then break down the horse poop brick into smaller pieces and reforge it with the hidden magma pieces in it, we then drop it off at a volcano located at Hawaii, we collect a few samples of the molten down brick and bring it inside, we then cool it down by putting it in holy water, now it should be harder than stone, we then paint it in such a manner that it would make Leo cry because its so ugly, let it dry for 4 hours to make what you kids know as Discombobulation!

0:59 : reject humanity, returne *DUCK*

this is literally all inside your brain

A brain that is not uploaded with specific tasks or goal inputs that last as long as the electric systems that maintain it will not have desires or behaviors and will be functionally dead. This is a pipe dream.

Good luck!

Back in 2039, I uploaded my mind to the company server. Someone edited it, made a copy & deleted the original.
Fortunately I was able to time travel back to 2038 & decided not to upload again.

Then we would have to reach 100& of our brain capacity.... and we know that thats boring B)

Why don't we just simulate interaction between atoms, and let them evolve by themselves to create organic substances

how long this video take time to be created ? it was awesome and full of information

just make sure you have an anti-virus program

From a Christian perspective, that would be impossible because the almighty creator wants people to age, sicken and die. You cannot win a contest of will against an almighty being.

Nahhh! Data isn't consciousness and a copy isn't you.

imagine being in a digital jail you could never escape.. yuck

Man this is pure scientific art

想像をこえるー

I think a fundamental problem that a lot of these grounded speculative works about mind uploading almost always miss is that I doubt we actually need to model the brain down to the molecular level. I think with greater understanding of how the different neural pathways of the brain work a lot of this can be modeled. I kind of wonder if we could wind up in something of a nightmare dystopia where the fidelity of your brain scan is reliant upon your wealth or status. Where the very rich and powerful _can_ afford molecular-level, perfect brain scans and the poorest will only get much rougher, loosely modeled scans that only really map out and record individual deviations from a standard model "normal" brain. It could also scale, where the loosest model is cheaper because it takes up less storage space and processing power to run, and where maybe some basic, so-called "non-individual" parts of the brain aren't even personal to you and are instead offloaded to a centralized service. Then the scale of fidelity moves up, with more parts of your brain actually recorded, more models of smaller tasks are created, and essentially your brain's processes get broken down like iterations of a fractal, with higher tiers meaning that more neural sub-routine approximate models are generated and recorded until you get to the point where that web of approximate algorithms basically traces your actual neurons.
I doubt, too, that modeling the individual neurochemical molecules and receptors on each neuron is necessary, even at a cellular-geometry level of fidelity. A neurons should be able to be modeled as just an object with a tree-style data structure of which other neurons it connects with, how sensitive it is, etc... make a matrix of neurons something like "N7A45FF" and then assign properties to it. I mean, even at a high level of detail, you could probably just set a neuron's number of receptors in a synapse as a variable "N7A45FF.SYNREC4F.SENSITIVITY" and then treat that neuron's number of receptors as a threshold value that must be overcome by a function "SYNAPSE_WILLITFIRE(NEURON.SEND, NERUON.RECEIVE)" in order to trigger a neuron firing. Like, threshold for N1 is 8, and if you want N1 to fire, then N2 would have to release more Dopamine than that plus constant/ global values that accounts for diffusion, reuptake losses, cerebrospinal fluid tonicity, hormonal effects, glucose levels, etc... and other things that either have a permanent effect on how neurochems transmit or are going to be affected by hormones that aren't permanent but are temporarily universal.
That gets me to the bigger point. I don't think the problem is really trying to make an electron microscope scan of every atom in a brain. As the study in this video mentioned, we can _already do that._ It's just really, really slow and inefficient, and it takes up, what, many yottabytes of data? If that's the route you go, then storage wouldn't be the issue so much as RAM and the processing power required to handle all of that raw data at any given time, let alone trying to model all the physics of the neurons in real time. What we really need to make brain uploading work is a better understanding of how the brain and neural pathways work on a theoretical level. Once we can break a neural pathway down to an accurately representative algorithm, then we don't need to model the exact shape of a neuron. Once we can turn each pathway or neuron into a code abstraction, objects and functions, then the mechanism by which it works doesn't matter.
The brain is a computer, we just need to understand how it works better and then we can emulate it and port it over to a different hardware architecture. When someone writes an NES emulator, that emulator doesn't have to model the physical layout of all the components, the chemical composition of the IC's, how many electrons are flowing through a given circuit, whether or not the controller is all gunked up with cheetoh paste, etc... it just needs to be a software abstraction of how the original chips routed a 1 or a 0. So long as a simulated brain will reliably give the same output for a given input as the original meat, then functionally the difference is non-existant.
I think the key to being able to break the brain down into these kinds of logical abstractions will be brain-machine interfacing. Once we have direct links between the brain and digital I/O, then we will be able to actually feed the brain identical inputs and read precise outputs, rather than trying to rely on the fuzzy human sensory organs for input and on the wildly imprecise, inaccurate, and unreliable outputs that are EEG scans and _what the clothed monkey in front of you tells you the output is._ It would be like trying to create an accurate NES in software only by playing a game on it. Being able to interface directly with the brain will give us the same kinds of data that you can get from the NES by opening the case, desoldering everything, and poking at every individual part with an oscilloscope. The brain-machine interface will almost certainly be the thing that will allow us to actually reverse-engineer the brain, or rather, the _mind_ in software. Until then, we're just not able to really get close enough to the meat jelly hardware to really understand how the circuitry works.
Side note, too, if you just scan the brain and make a second copy, then you still die IRL. It's basically the same as just cloning yourself. _YOU WANT_ that brain interface, because what you want is to slowly add more and more silicon to your brain, interface with computers, let parts of your thought processes be offloaded to external computers and then get reintegration to your primary brain to get used to jt, and generally jusy replace it little by little, so that the stream of consciousness that is you will slowly transition into the ephemeral software mind that can be eternal. The ship of theseus is the model for making your mind and soul immortal without having a hard cut where you suddenly cease to exist and a new entity is birthed from the void. It would be like sending someone a copy of your save state and having them start playing your game. It's not your game anymore.

Weed users already accomplished it long ago!

this sounds like a plot for a movie or series or something :O

The guy who uploaded his mind to a Minecraft Hardcore world: fuck.

this is sicening

What's the point of living as a machine for 3000 years? Like, is there an actual reason or do we want to live forever just because?
I can't be the only one who opposes this.

y not put brain in other bode

What if this IS the simulation and we just don't know it yet...

Masha allah

Amazing

Surprised that the video hasn't had to be reposted for updates

And wouldn't a quantum computer solve the problem with what the atoms will do?

We should make biological copies of our younger self's and then transfer the brain too the new body.
Though it's required that we drove the aging of the brain, maybe through NAD therapy or something. Would be cool if someone would let scientists try it

Consciousness can exist outside of the brain according to surgery patients who had out of body experiences during surgery. So somehow our consciousness is assigned to our particular body or dna 🧬 I suppose 🤔

Downside to living as a digital brain: floating point error. Seems like a slow descent into digital brain cancer!

Kurzegast in a nutshell, if you stop making videos dont delete them

Best video in the world now can you tell who researches it I mean a doc or Engineering PhD etc etc that does it completely ya know

the start of this video just sounds like CoC

"Altered carbon" the best serie about this

The thing that I can't quite wrap my head around is the idea of the self... if we are essentially saying that there's no soul that goes away when we die, what can meaningfully be called "me"? Do I really care if a digital copy of me lives for a million years after I've been combusted? But how does someone even know that they are the same person after sleeping and waking in the morning? Consciousness has been broken for much of that time... maybe this is no different... very difficult questions...

Better to die then living forever, we came from nothing we will go to nothing anyway so why spend hours trying to find immortality than better finding a peaceful and a happy and a limited life to spend

Too bad CyberPunk 2077 sucks ass like a Dyson sucks dust.

This be some matrix shit

It's all fun and games till someone does a factory reset

The feat. Cyberpunk 2077 was removed

The answer is yes. I did it about four months ago and I've been living in your phone ever since.

According to the average American thinking the title should say "You're"

you would still be the person who's mind was uploaded, so the uploaded brain will never be you. It is a copy, and you are you.

Are you still you? What is your digital mind worth? Wouldn’t it be simulated? Would you live forever? I don’t want to live forever.

I think mind uplode is a bad idea

this is materialism

Geez, from that description, it sounds like maybe we're already simulations.

video explain how greatful if we could up load conscious on matrix.
me : so how is matrix fap?

uploading brain into machine feels like god would dress up as human..
downgrading at best

Read the Massage i write
previues.

Paradigm Shift.

Everybody gangster until you get dragged to the trashcan

The scan takes petabytes of storage, but that is just a "dumb" volumetric scan that goes down to the level of cells; to even get to the "wiring diagram" that you would need to simulate with rules, you've implied another hidden step, which is to extract the actual structure of neurons and their connections from that scan, which requires very sophisticated computer vision/reconstruction algorithms.
That being said, if you COULD do that, it would no doubt take up much less space, being a more concise representation of the important structure rather than a stack of electron microscope images sampled densely for fear of missing anything.

Imagine if a few people didn't join the "Upload your mind" fest and stayed behind. Now they have complete domination over all of humanity because they have the power to turn off the server with all the people's minds and erase all of then for once and for all. So people would have to praise and serve them like they are some sort of God, or else they could just erase you or scramble your code and make you suffer eternally.

Now do quantum computing!

Just me or this video felt like 20 mins

The best application of this technology would be allowing a person to copy his mind before his death so that his love one's could speak with him during his funeral, or privately then decommissioning it in deleting the copy immediately after.
But calling it conquering death, or living on after death is just idiotic the person clearly died in no one know what clearly constitutes a human being it could be Body Soul and Spirit the eternal corporeal elements of our being which I believe, or more who knows.

But if you're just making a copy that's not really you.
 Rather you upload your brain or not you still die. To say such thing's as it's still you, or I'll live on after you die is more a philosophical argument because the flesh in blood you that existed prior to your copy is long dead by that time, and the concepts of soul and spirits which I believe exists in each of us hasn't been debunked as of yet which grants the idea you live on eternally in a different form as far as science knows is as real as anything else. Creating a copy of you conscience or mind is simply just a person that wants some part of him left behind that's not really him because he's actually already dead in gone.

What about a Futurama type brain in a jar connected to a computer?

Edward Elric : [sighs and pulls out a book] "Water, 35 liters; carbon, 20 kilograms; ammonia, 4 liters; lime, 1.5 kilograms; phosphorus, 800 grams; salt, 250 grams; saltpeter, 100 grams; sulfur, 80 grams; fluorine, 7.5; iron, 5; silicon, 3 grams; and trace amounts of 15 other elements."

Rose Thomas : What's that?

Edward Elric : It's all the ingredients of the average adult human body, right down to the protein in your eyelashes.

[Closes book]

Edward Elric : And even though science has given us a complete chemical breakdown, there's never been a successful attempt at bringing a human to life.

Stupid idea.

this gave me an existentional crisis

7:35 "Just having a good list of ingredients is not enough to make a consciousness cake"
Sounds a bit like Fullmetal Alchemist

u want to upload the past?? nightmare never ends

Never upload your mind, NEVER, you could be trapped in endless torture or become a digital slave

One word: SOMA

I'm Pretty Sure Immortality Is A Type Of Torture.

Researching a human brain is going to be so hard to process for the only human brain because the human brain is researching its own brain basically like your body researching your body without your body having a brain researching your body it's pretty complicated

Can someone resurrect me plz

Imagine our nerves listening to us listening to another man who's talking about our nerves how would they process that LOL

being a digital being will make the mind's several jobs useless! maybe we don't need to copy everything.

Who tf wants to live forever, I’m 17 and I keep thinking when I’m gonna die everyday lmao

How much did it cost to produce these 14 minutes of beautiful animation?

Child: "Mommy, can I become a meme format?"
Mother: "No, not until you're 16."
Child: "Awww..."

I'm really interested if we're able to upload our minds, and we might get it sooner or later concerning the fact that our technology is rapidly advancing. And we also have Elon musk's neuralink and other business that are doing to same as Elon, along with Laurent Simons, the boy genius. For all we know, we might get a glimpse in the near future soon.

Vid recap: We don’t know what is consciousness, so we can’t upload it.

What is brain transplant? I think it also has the same procedure

"Mind is one of those words that are really hard to define" - The Mind

Such a shitty Redditor video. It's literally not possible to do as of right now, yet you shoehorn all this pseudoscience into the video and your fedora tipping anti-religious take. Honestly cringe.

More edgy Kurzgesagt pseudoscience.

Short answer. No

bah it is not you so stop saying "you"

Great video. Anyways, I see two big rookie mistakes. 1, the idea that an uploaded mind, a mind running on a computer, is flesh free and eternal; it is flesh free, but not hardware free, like the hardware is the new flesh, then it is no flesh free, and will live only as long as the hardware lives. 2, the idea that the mind and or the consciousness is only in the brain; the mind and consciousness are functions of the entire body.

I love the cuteness of this channel's presentation

I'm pretty sure that instead of brain mapping...we end up with neurological Heisenberg (timestamp) data destroyers /weapons of death that can literally rip apart/dissolve ALL cellular life in SECONDS by simply using resonance/frequency/sound waves tuned to a VERY SPECIFIC 2/11 (string field theory scary) frequency. Could it cure cancer? sure....but could it also kill off large swaths of whichever population (human) is deemed unworthy/irredeemable/undeserving/or too poor of continued life/existence/sexual reproduction from now until forever....Effectively ERASED....
Sounds scary as hell right? Well...GUESS WHAT...We already have tested/proven/confirmed this science.....OF COURSE everything I just said ALREADY EXISTS...and of course it is VERY LIKELY that it is already being weaponized...SOMEWHERE. Don't take my word for it though....Google the 2/11 frequency for yourself! Sleep tight!

Imagine being trapped in a smart toilet

Ia + computer science + cuantium PC + biology molecular + neurology =??

This video makes me think that I've been born in the right time

Loved this video but
You should tell some positive points too
the one who works for digital Immortality (like me) will be very upset after seeing this video.