Matrixing the Brain or You?
Who are you? Or Who am I? This is a basic question we all face somewhere or the other day. But on a serious note, can we clone our minds to create a version of ourselves that will preserve us for the upcoming years? For instance, what would it feel like to live a life after death; as in you someday woke up and realized that you are walking again on the planet, but the catch is, its not the “physical” you, but the “digital” you! Isn’t it fascinating?
Well, come to think of it, the human brain is just another tissue that is being scanned these days. But is it getting really scanned?
The brain is the part where most of our consciousness lies, but where does it even lies is the question to solve first. There are three ways where you can duplicate the “you”. First is the PHYSICALISM.
PHYSICALISM is a process where you see the brain as whole, and then replicate the brain with the exact neuronal connections inside of it to make it a duplicate copy of the original itself. but the process is “self limiting” because the laws of nature doesn’t allow you to replicate it; reason being so simple that “energy is the rate limiting step”.
Second way is by SCANNING. Here, you scan the part where the “real you” is located in the brain. The current technologies doesn’t allow us to have that capability to have a look where is the “real you” located. But even if it happens in the near future, the scanning will take place at a rate where our resources will be exhausted.
To simply start with, the human brain is an organ that sits in your skull and controls all the parts that make you the “you”. It has a billion neuronal connections that make up the functioning. Scientists in 2019 scanned a 1cu mm of brain from mouse. the size is exactly similar to a grain of sand, but the data they used to store all those 25,000 scanned images of brain, which contained 1,000,000 neurons 1,000,000,000 synapses and 4.5km long neuronal fibers, is equal to a 1,000 terabytes or 1,000 TB. Imagine storing the entire human brain of a single person will take up a space which will roughly be equal to the size of 25 pentillion bytes(25,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000……. and counting).
Third method is where you make a digital print of yourself. Where you Code the brain into the computer as binary system, and then run the code to see if you can actually simulate the “you”.
If this thing happens, then the physical you and the digital you can co-exist simultaneously and you can use the digital version of you to do the things which you can’t do in physicality, like try to eat and feel in game dishes, or try to roam in a world where you can just dream of.
But the problem arises after this. What if the cloned you becomes superior to the digital you? What if, there comes a time when the earth will be ruled by nothing but just the “digital” AI. If this happens then the human history will be in dust for the rest of the eons and will appear as a layer of 1cm thickness in the earths crust.
The Thought of Cloning is nice, but the consequences can be unpredictable, after all digital things can get easily “corrupt”.
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