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“What is Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)/Mind upload or Brain upload?” An Overview…
“What is Whole Brain Emulation (WBE)/Mind upload or Brain upload?” An Overview…
Mind uploading is a popular term for a process by which the mind, a collection of memories, personality, and attributes of a specific individual, is transferred from its original biological brain to an artificial computational substrate.
It refers to the same general concept of “transferring” the mind to a different substrate.
Once it is possible to move a mind from one substrate to another, it is then called a substrate-independent mind (SIM).
The concept of SIM is inspired by the idea of designing software that can run on multiple computers with different hardware without needing to be rewritten.
In this context, substrate is a term referring to a generalized concept of any computational platform that is capable of universal computation.
Additionally, we assume that the neural states are computational processes and devices capable of universal computing are sufficient to generate the same kind of computational processes found in a brain.
Mind uploading is an ongoing area of active research, bringing together ideas from neuroscience, computer science, engineering, and philosophy..
Realistically, mind uploading likely lies many decades in the future, but the short-term offers the possibility of advanced neural prostheses that may benefit us.
An attempt has been made in this Booklet to include a readable introduction to the basic technical and philosophical topics covering mind uploading and substrate-independent minds.
Further, an attempt also has been made to focus on careful definitions of the common terms and what the implications are if mind uploading becomes possible!
……Dr.H.K.Saboowala.
Mind uploading is a popular term for a process by which the mind, a collection of memories, personality, and attributes of a specific individual, is transferred from its original biological brain to an artificial computational substrate.
It refers to the same general concept of “transferring” the mind to a different substrate.
Once it is possible to move a mind from one substrate to another, it is then called a substrate-independent mind (SIM).
The concept of SIM is inspired by the idea of designing software that can run on multiple computers with different hardware without needing to be rewritten.
In this context, substrate is a term referring to a generalized concept of any computational platform that is capable of universal computation.
Additionally, we assume that the neural states are computational processes and devices capable of universal computing are sufficient to generate the same kind of computational processes found in a brain.
Mind uploading is an ongoing area of active research, bringing together ideas from neuroscience, computer science, engineering, and philosophy..
Realistically, mind uploading likely lies many decades in the future, but the short-term offers the possibility of advanced neural prostheses that may benefit us.
An attempt has been made in this Booklet to include a readable introduction to the basic technical and philosophical topics covering mind uploading and substrate-independent minds.
Further, an attempt also has been made to focus on careful definitions of the common terms and what the implications are if mind uploading becomes possible!
……Dr.H.K.Saboowala.
53 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 21, 2018
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