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Computer sharing of personality in sight: inventor

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I'm not sure why this is advantageous.

The first step is getting our 'personality' into a computer. The next step is getting our personality from that computer back into cloned humans, or constructed human bodies. This would sort of allow us to live forever - we could back-up our brains, and install those backups into new copies of ourselves. We could even install them into younger copies of ourselves, or even new bodies that aren't the same as the ones we started with - men could try being a woman for a period of time, or vice versa, for example.

It's the stuff of science fiction, but so were smartphones a couple of decades back.

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You're correct in that it cannot be done at our current technological level. And you are kind of correct, in that the best we could probably do is a copy, not an actual transplant of our personality (spirit). But I think that we will get to a point where we will be able to do a full copy of our personality into a computer and then back into a living body.

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Limit will be current technology till we can merge neural cells with current tech.

Also such a program would need awareness, learning and independent thinking capability plus constant monitoring from psychologists.

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The amount and extent of technological development just in my own lifetime would be unbelievable, if I hadn't witnessed it myself. From that point of view, I have to think that pretty much anything we can imagine can be invented, eventually, including interstellar space travel, extending the human lifespan, and other feats now hardly imagined.

I used to think that it would be best if we would slow down the pace of technological innovation, so that our social development could keep pace with the added responsibilities inherent in ever greater power. However, with our inability to curb population growth (the world's population has tripled just in my lifetime), resource overuse, climate warming, poisoning of the biosphere, including the oceans, I now think that our greatest hope lies in as yet undeveloped technological feats that will somehow allow us to correct the worst of our own excesses. One way or another, we may be the instruments of our own demise, but I now think that our best bet for survival lies in coupling social awareness with great technological innovations.

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Once we move from 'in vivo' to 'in silico', we might not want to return...and I guess machines won't have sex.

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Yes, there are about 15 different types of personalities in the world. Once the program has the details filled in correctly we will be able to estimate the range of individual human responses among us accordingly. We would then be able to have computers behave for us, and interact with us, in their own idiosyncratic ways. Our reactions will be predictable. Computers will then develop art for us to appreciate. Over time there will be no need for us to deal with our own differences to any great extent, nor will there be a need for us to interact with other humans. Much of that will be done by computers. Works of art and creativity will be left to the computers as well.

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