Future of Science and Technology Q&A (November 8, 2024)

[@VladimirRomanovsky-Errdonald]

21:25 Something that's like aging in technical systems

[@JuliusUnique]

36:30 doesn't this happen every 6 years anyway in a slow process by swichting out the atoms of our body? Also I think if both go on, the digital and the biological one, there is a split happening at the moment of creation of the digital one, because the digital one now starts its own life while the biological one carries on, so kind of a consciousness that's forking into 2 new ones. at the end of the day it's the communication that matters, the communication of brain cells. If we split a brain in half in a way that both brain parts survive, we will eventaully have 2 seperate consciousnesses because their communication isn't there anymore. Before splitting the brain, the brain could communicate almost instantly with all the neurons, now that the neurons of the 2 brain halves can't communicate in that way anymore, they are 2 seperate consciousses now. If we talk to each other as humans, we kind of fuse our consciousness into 1 single one, it's just very poorly connected via voice instead of electrical signal that are way faster etc. I also think if we fuse 2 brains together, we could manage to create 1 single consciousness out of the 2 seperate ones since their communication is now very fast so to speak 15 years ago, when I was 15 years old, I had the idea that consciousness is communication, and the better the communication is the more if feels like one singular consciousness and until now I stuck to this idea

[@JuliusUnique]

24:15 it's not just about extending a "good time" extending human life is important due to economical reaons: education is expensive and children have to be educated. Living longer means we can profit more from educated older people and need less new humans that we have to educate. I can see that there are also disadvantages of extending the human lifetime, for example can it lead to a slow down in "cultural progress" aka younger people tend to be more open to change and new ideas. Also corruption is more likely because of longer lifetimes as humans have more time to build a system that benefits themselves over others But all in all entending the human lifetime will make humanity richer I think (but I mean slowing down aging, as in, being still 'young at fit' at age 100)