What Would Happen If Your Mind Was Copied Into a Simulation?

Imagine a human brain scanned in full detail and reconstructed in a computer simulation. This person’s mind and memories, emotions and personality will be copied. So he’s probably it will have an immortal and digital form. This futuristic possibility is called mind uploading. Brain and consciousness science disciplines say mind copying is likely, and there are no laws of physics that need to be preserved.

Currently, there is much longer time for this type of technology, but studies focused on this area shows that mind copying is inevitable. Of course, it’s impossible to be sure how such a development will affect our cultures, but as simulation technology and neural networks continue to evolve, we can predict what the future of mind-copying will be.

Suppose one day in the future you go to the cloning clinic to have your brain scanned. Let’s assume that the technology is tested and works without any errors. It perfectly replicates all your synapses and recreates your unique mind. You with your voice and your face a virtual body Let’s say you recreate it in a high-end game-like environment.

What will happen next?

First, you maintain your biological existence. As a mortal, you leave the clinic and go home, and perhaps you think that the money you spent on this job is wasted. Meanwhile you, transferred to the simulation, wake up in a virtual apartment, it feels just like you. There is continuity of experience, it remembers everything you went to the clinic, paid and made there. He feels sedated during the procedure and then wakes up in a completely different environment. It has everything you have: your memories, your personality…

Your simulation state You decide to explore the outside. You find the virtual version of the city you live in. The sounds, the smells, the places to visit are all like the real thing, maybe even better than the real thing. You go outside and try to talk to strangers. You know that the virtual body here cannot be hurt. You go to the cafe you always go to and order coffee. However, you can’t get the taste you’re used to, you can’t feel anything going into your stomach. ‘Cause what you’re drinking not real coffee and you don’t have a real stomach. Everything is simulation. Also, the visual details are not flawless. When you hold your breath, it is not like in the real world because there is no oxygen in the virtual world.

You find your simulation phone as your simulation state. You are looking for your true self. When you pick up the phone, your real self, maybe your simulated self, is telling you that you squandered his money. Your simulation state is talking about how wonderful it is to your real self, or maybe even someone you know who died recently.

What kind of relationship would you have with the simulation yourself? Someone you will never meet.

The biological you lives in the real world, the simulation you lives in a virtual world. Maybe we don’t even need to meet. After all, today, we can interact and meet many people through social media without ever meeting face to face. with yourself via video call You can also contact us. In this way, you can chat with deceased family elders on festive days.

For the virtual other world, we can call it a kind of man-made paradise. But the difference from heaven as we know it is that it is connected to the real world.

actually this It is also somewhat similar to our current lifestyle. Maybe you communicate with more people on social media than you do in real life. The majority of the people you contact are perhaps in the virtual world.

Think about the work we do in the real world. Many require physical actions, and these jobs will likely be done by autonomous robots in the future. Many jobs handled by humans today will come out of human domination in the medium and long term. Robots and artificial intelligence will take over these tasks. In the created simulation world, people will be able to continue to do their own work.

This article has been translated, summarized, and localized from the article handled by Michael SA Graziano, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University. You can find the full article and the original here.