Can You Upload Your Brain to a Computer?

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[@Thoughty2]

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[@He1IoDev]

Hoi

[@Koronisu]

wtf 10 hours ago and posted just now??!?!!!?!

[@typicalpaul1725]

@@Koronisu ah yes a time traveler

[@Koronisu]

@@typicalpaul1725 lmao

[@saucyminx8697]

🙏🏻DRAWN TO U WITHOUT PONDERING🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@oscarnanayakkara1097]

Everyone gangsta until there's a power cut

[@shaunsamazingcontent9797]

There’s also this show on amazon names upload but Funny comment 😂

[@m0n4rch911]

Not really since it's probably saved so we wouldn't even know if it turned off and will likely just reboot and continue after power is restored. I sense an r/ wooooosh since i brought it up meaning i cant be r/ wooshed, bwahahahahaha. I mean bruhhhh how many times did i have to do all those work again since i didn't save my game up. Feelsbad bruh when you don't have auto save enabled.

[@abhi5504]

@@m0n4rch911 what if when the power cuts humanity resets to the last autosave so we couldve invented something amazing and have lost it and we wouldnt even know

[@murderedcarrot9684]

I would be a closed circuit and rely on batteries instead of a powerplant.

[@TheAlee233]

@@m0n4rch911when we reboot we'll all have a 'dejavu' moment LOL

[@homelessjeff4428]

imagine your chilling at the beach watching the sunset in a digital world, and suddenly an ad for raid shadow legends blocks your vision and a voice in your head says "buy earth premium for only 129.99 a month to remove ads"

[@danieldecastro4164]

LOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL

[@petergant8767]

BEST APRIL FOOL'S DAY JOKE, EVER! I' hope!

[@schiz0phren1c]

If the ad was by Internet Historian I wouldn't mind.

[@pigpug_214]

A voice whispers... “pssst... it’s ya boy...”

[@schiz0phren1c]

@@pigpug_214 Lol! exactly how I pictured it Pigpug! then Shadow man starts kicking sand in peoples faces and wrecking their sandcastles...

[@sjdstorm2]

Imagine being stuck in VR and get tortured forever in there since time works differently. Literal hell

[@carlosdasilva2409]

Worse scenario. Imagine being successfully uploaded to a computer or private server, but you don't get any simulation, any input at all. You only perceive the nothingness, you have your memories, your experiences, your own knowledge and your very own "existence"...but you are completely deprived from any sensory stimuli. You are only a fragment of consciousness in the void. You can process information faster than any human would but...you are trapped in the nothingness and every second feels like an eternity. You can "think" and imagine a whole life in just a couple of them. That's a far worse hell than a simulated torture, if you ask me. It basically involves descending into madness until someone decides to shut you down or terminate you.anima

[@fluffygengar3533]

@@carlosdasilva2409 pokemon in the computer

[@carlosdasilva2409]

@@fluffygengar3533 I think so. Unless there is more lore into it that says pokemon somehow get transfered to a simulated world according to the skin of the "box" they are put into, that's pretty much what I think they go through :T

[@fluffygengar3533]

Only if they were outside of the pokeballs, then put into the pc, which is impossible.

[@timothyblevins6928]

Could this be a part of the hell spoken of in Scripture?

[@rorythomson3439]

Being conscious but trapped inside a limited computer software construct sounds like a special kind of hell.

[@bsadewitz]

We already are.

[@navareeves8976]

virtual people would start realizing that immortality is not a good idea. people would want to commit die and find away to turn themselves off. what is described sounds like heaven, but it would be hell.

[@lenandov]

You mean because boredom? Like, nothing new and it can't even keep up with your imagination? Reginald Barclay had to teach the computer how to build one?

[@LarryNathanielPhoto]

"Nobody wants Mark Zuckerberg as their overlord." That really hit home. 😆

[@rgerber]

Maria Splitterburg

[@niomifoster8963]

Reminds me of the movie in time

[@carlosdasilva2409]

"Brain interface suspended for hate speech. You said: I prefer the orange model over the black one. Context: you were buying augmentations for your robotic body and the orange one looked cooler for you

[@michaelm4464]

@@carlosdasilva2409 too late for this one. They already got him. RIP

[@larshassing3938]

He ain't THE overlord irl.! He is one of them...

[@briandering4182]

It will all be 'fun and games' till someone trips over the power cable.

[@lightpropulsionguy]

While the notion of living forever in a simulation is entertaining and thought provoking, the fact that you are trading immortality for external control seems pointless, if all of society lived in a computer then there is no one to protect the computer the only true guarantee we have to survive as a species is to outlast inevitable odds, we will never do this if everyone jumps on one bandwagon, we must spread our species out into all notions of expansion, we must live in computers, robots, on other planets, and at the same time try to repair this one, it is the only true way to increase the odds of humans being a "forever species"

[@kronoscamron7412]

imagine someone edits your code and something goes horribly wrong.

[@tammywhitworth6331]

😂😂😂

[@Princess_Soulless]

Best comment ever

[@nickrog6759]

@@kronoscamron7412 Its already happened - I caught a flu a while back , I woke up and found I have a much smaller co..

[@Takedownman]

The problem is, yes it is you, but not you. I would still exist, yet the me here and now wouldn't be. Only memories, I would still be dead. So in reality, I wouldn't live forever.

[@Takedownman]

Also I can sew this turning into dark matter lol. Where no matter where you go I'm VR or AI ads play to pay the way lol

[@nis62]

It’s a digital copy of you.

[@jesperjohansson6959]

By that logic, this has already happened to you. 98 percent of your atoms get replaced each year. You are already a copy holding on to memories of a human body that no longer exists. You have died many times already. Probably the key is that we change gradually. If you instantly created a digital copy of yourself, would that carry your consciousness? Probably not. But if you gradually replaced the physical aspects of your body with digital ones - the same way our atoms get replaced all the time - then your consciousness would probably merge into the digital you.

[@nis62]

@@jesperjohansson6959 Let's put it like this. Have you seen the Prestige? We are gonna die eventually like the guy in the box what your left is just an digital immitation of you. If you haven't seen it then sorry forthe spoiler.

[@siddharthakvr5154]

@@jesperjohansson6959 check out SOMA. It's a game that really asks this question

[@theCodyReeder]

Can’t wait!

[@aliceyue1754]

how do u only have on like???

[@youhaveinfinitevalue5755]

Ya, full access to everything you did, really want that? Your spirit moves on, so downloading would be a journal of every thought and deed in life, really want that available for all while you go to the next step of growth? I died and came back at the age of 7, I promise, eternal life is there, not here.

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

We could make a copy of a human brain but nobody is even close to understanding what consciousness is

[@bsadewitz]

The fashionable thing to do these days is apparently just to pretend that there actually isn't any hard problem.

[@nelsonx5326]

I was considering that. What is consciousness, self awareness? The AI personality would need an ego too. Somethings that make us who we are seem to be outside the brain, outside our being. I'm not crazy about these scientists playing God. Say you transfer your mind and being into a simulated reality. All is wonderful. Then some hacker gets into the simulated reality program and thinks it would be funny to turn it into hell. Regular life is great, even with its ups and downs. But some people have screwed up big time, and we have 20 year old men and women being sentenced to life in prison. Now imagine a horrific fascist government with the technology described in this video, with the ability to send the mind and consciousness to virtual prison for 10,000 years. Yeah baby, the brave new world, all who enter give up all hope. I believe I see government abusing technology and power already. Some years ago my young daughter was making mischief. I warned her that with the advancements in technology she needs to walk the line. The first generation that might live to be 1,000 years old was born ten years ago. A thousand years is a long time to be dragging a criminal record around. Pretty fucked up when death...

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

@@nelsonx5326 yea and when we look at the government in North Korea or the Soviet Union trying to control their citizens minds and whatnot, imagine if only they would have access to everybody's minds and shit

[@piemoon2488]

Nonsense. Its awareness. A much smaller part of your psyche than the subconscious and they claim to know enough about that to manipulate fracture and physically control a person. They know. Don't believe everything you read and research MK ultra while your at it. And fiction is just fiction too. Has no affect on you at all.

[@code5829]

@@bsadewitz exactly.

[@crashnavarro]

Original title: "Could the entire human race live inside a computer?"

[@subieasunayuuki]

Okay, Lucifier.

[@paulgoogol2652]

always has been

[@CorundumDevil]

You are not my scribe, and I shall spitefully forget the history you ascribe.

[@drishalballaney6590]

current title: Why the Entire Human Race Could be Living Inside a Computer in 10 Years

[@occupied1111]

I hope so. I’m trying to buy cheap land.

[@ErikGauthierDrums]

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they never stopped to think about whether they should" - Dr Ian Malcolm

[@Heinz76Harald]

just imagine you will never ever forget anything... remember EVERY PAIN you had in your past, all at the same time, anytime... this will drive you crazy, no matter what...

[@astrid.00.7]

Arran’s got the jump on us-he’s been uploading his brain to KZbin for years.

[@shemarhylton8093]

SWORD ART ONLINE BRO

[@TheGunmanChannel]

*He uploads his Google search history

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

#Russia2045 #TomCampbell #MonroeInstitute #AstralRealms #SimulationTheory #Biocentrism #GoVegan #Centrist #RichDadPoorDad #Agnostic #AntiTheist

[@friedsugar2701]

In India, a ton of sages we're attempting to live forever whilst some were attempting to break from the cycle of rebirth. Weird world, we reside in.

[@xitcix8360]

Well the ones trying to break from the cycle of rebirth were trying to get into the afterlife, which gives them eternal life.

[@johnqpublic7191]

Door 2, please

[@friedsugar2701]

@@xitcix8360 *Visible confusion*

[@YouTubecanfuckagoat]

@@xitcix8360 Umm... no, the point is to embrace...eternal nothingness.

[@gusbarrientos7864]

@@KZbincanfuckagoat nirvana isnt eternal nothingness sooooo. When you break the cycle of reincarnation it leads you to nirvana, eternal bliss and unification with the whole.

[@MyLateralThawts]

So the guy who looks like a young nineteenth century gold prospector discusses immortality? Well, I’ve got to listen to this!

[@shahmeermirza5101]

If anybody wondering! Altered Carbon is based on this Topic! Its awesome Series!

[@mikehaugen4816]

Hell yeah. Season one was amazing

[@vasekfrydl6373]

The Human Race: Becomes a part of a computer. Blackout: Hello there, you didn't see ME coming did you.

[@neonxnational]

Personal Generators : no.

[@CosmicHarmony58]

@@neonxnational INITIATE BACK UP GENERATORS 1138!! ACTIVATING GENERATORS! we back on BABY!

[@niomifoster8963]

All fun and games until they upload a serial killer brain mapping and he starts deleting people. "The serial Hacker killer "

[@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked]

Hehe. #Russia2045 #TomCampbell #MonroeInstitute #AstralRealms #SimulationTheory #Biocentrism #GoVegan #Centrist #RichDadPoorDad #Agnostic #AntiTheist

[@rapj.r.6133]

Wouldn't have eyes as a computer so no

[@LekkerNootje]

The "look how ever you want" with the clip of people getting your moustache, cracked me up hahaha

[@sledxdomi3653]

Absolutely, i have a big ass beard, but a mustache half as great id photoshop that on my character

[@jonnyfox2914]

😂 yer I laughed loads at that

[@MauricioTamezROf]

Do you have a moustache?

[@098anime]

15:33, 16:50

[@augmentedkeys5971]

Dumb

[@missfoxylocksnz]

It's like that episode of stargate atlantis where the main characters are copied by the "replicators", find out they aren't the real ones and then meet the real ones. It's definitely an interesting concept and an awesome plot for movies too - like transcendence. Love the channel ❤

[@quandary1382]

There was an SG1 episode too called "Tin Man" where they all got their minds copied into androids.

[@siltstrider6812]

Imagine shaking someone's hand, only to be disconnected, glitch out, and stare into the person's eyes awkwardly for half of a day.

[@ananamu2248]

It would probably be called love ! 🤪

[@shanonfrancis5071]

Are you telling me there's an actual worm living in a Lego body somewhere out there? That's sad and scary at the same time!

[@Nphen]

It's just a computer-simulated version of worm neurons. Very cool that they were able to use Lego as part of a science experiment!

[@agalah408]

Great, now I'm going to have creepy lego crawling worm nightmares tonight.

[@_wanted_outlaw3007]

No it just does the same things it's a npc irl

[@BigfootWithMemes]

Plot twist: You've been inside a computer this whole time

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Hehe... hehe.. he

[@rvfiasco]

Indeed.

[@vmondude]

According to Elon Musk haha

[@wyattloftin106]

Kinda🤔

[@sharkhenry8010]

This simulation sucks.

[@jamesmatthew1903]

1945: "You're going to have a shower" 2021: "You're going to be uploaded to a computer"

[@homelessjeff4428]

are you comparing mind uploading to the holocaust?

[@jamesmatthew1903]

@@homelessjeff4428 yes I thought that was obvious. The final solution to the population problem. You're lead to believe you're being uploaded into a computer (like being told you'll have a shower) only to be executed. Although to be honest the latter is far more believable than the former.

[@JimmySaul888]

It would end up being an eternal hell knowing that you're dead but your virtual mind persists in a Huxleyian matrix of unending pleasure and dreamlike fantasy. Digital people would start inventing ways of committing virtual suicide.

[@biggietalktoem8968]

Someone gets it

[@isakisak9989]

Would it though? If we get to that point you could probably just shut of your emotions for sadness, depression and boredom and live in bliss forever in your own perfect world that you imagine. but for all we know this might not be possible and we still die if we really are the brain, but then again we don’t know what consciousness really is or what causes it, or if it is transferable, the upload might just be a copy and you die, of so it’s pretty pointless. but until then it’s just a gamble, you and i will probably be dead before longevity escape or age reversal so that sucks, hope i at least get to experience full dive VR before then.

[@charliekezza]

If ur brain gets uploaded as is well mental health problems will still be there so yep totally agree we will try to virtually end our...program

[@taavi948]

Wow, Thoughty2 has been on fire the last year. I remember there were times when I had to wait for his video for weeks.

[@Tony32]

Thank the pandemic.

[@jgobroho]

Reuploading videos with different titles and pictures.

[@lazyman456talio7]

Same bro 😎

[@shrekinionminion9704]

So basically we are sims in a 4d creature's computer.

[@TheSkyGuy77]

Except we can understand that we're not real.

[@joshuaadamstithakayoutubel2490]

Broke Simp has entered the chat

[@Jamsessionroom1337]

@@TheSkyGuy77 We are all a theseus ship, so yes we are real and no we aren't real in the grand cosmic sense. As we will die and return to start dust. As if nothing had happened. Our lives are what we make of them, the only real thing is the connections and the fleeting memories of suffering, hatred, love, friendship, every other emotion, and community we have held dear until our final moments. So everything and everyone u meet matters and it all doesn't matter except for the infinity that will return to nothing and probably will return to everything because... true Nothingness can't be truly nothing forever. After all we are a unseeable untraceable billion year one frame spot in the entirety that is the picture of the infinite cosmos, our very own existence is impossible yet possible, complicated, intricately weaved, a soup that was stirred to as close as a "dream" could be.

[@shrekinionminion9704]

@@Jamsessionroom1337 This is great.I am using this in my essay. Don't worry I will give you credit.

[@SomeAustrianPainter]

Dumb question but does anyone know if time is truly considered a “dimension”?

[@cameronhill2true]

The show Upload on Amazon prime shows what a future like this "could" look like.

[@random_acuity9203]

The irony being, we might already be living in a computer.

[@agalah408]

Yeah, well, go back to the store and ask for an upgrade to a better reality. One with fewer pandemic's and despots.

[@random_acuity9203]

@@agalah408 there’s always a glitch in the matrix

[@rapj.r.6133]

Inseption?

[@garethwynn01]

@@rapj.r.6133 that would be inception.

[@cathyhamlin3611]

You've been watching The Matrix too much

[@newphysicist]

When I started to type a comment, 60 comments already! Did they just comment without watching?

[@dolly8714]

i mean you were typing a comment too, right? that means you didnt even watch the video either and planned to send a comment

[@UwUOwl]

42's own pinned comment was posted *10 hours ago* soooo....

[@warpdrive9229]

That's what most people do actually. I am one of them XD

[@pyrokittykat744]

Patrons do get perks 😉

[@arealphantom2859]

yup

[@michaelault9334]

So you can think and speak and hear but you cant touch hug or feel... it sounds like being on twitter for eternity. This is my own personal hell.

[@capnsteele3365]

i dont want that

[@Heinz76Harald]

yes

[@tomm04471]

yes you could. everything you feel is reactions to electrical and chemical input. In essence, all you experience is information. So from an outside perspective, you're right. But *you* will still feel it all. EDIT: However, if something went wrong, if the wrong hands got a hold of your digital neurons, you could end up experiencing pain and suffering that would make every version of evil cover their eyes in horror and disgust (⓿_⓿)

[@Heinz76Harald]

@@tomm04471 ya, but where does the information come from to experience it? you see? :D

[@tomm04471]

As a continuation of my previous edit, let's play a game. Who can think up the worst scenario, I'll start; rusty jagged needles in every single pore.

[@philiplavere]

The smartest and most thoughty take on this ludicrous concept I have seen yet. I especially liked that someone finally touched on the reality of other organs in the body and their connection to the emotional 'self'. Kurzweil might start by seeing if his brain could contain him without his body, before he tries relying solely on it's contents to duplicate himself.

[@keithknight9089]

Remember when thoughty used to wear a 50 dollar suit from a thrift store. He’s come a long way

[@Ahoooooooo]

He is the same guy ? I could swear the other guy didn't have a moustache . 🤔

[@AvroBellow]

Everyone is already a ship of Theseus because we replace every molecule in our bodies dozens of times during our lives. I'm still here, how about you?

[@MarcillaSmith]

I can't believe I let someone talk me into implanting my VIN into that one cell :: smacks head ::

[@tomm04471]

are you though? being 31, If I was put next to my teenage self, no one would guess we were the same person.

[@MarcillaSmith]

@@tomm04471 not even you?

[@Rebelliouso]

Not true. You replace many of your cells but not all of your cells. Many of your brain cells are the same cells that you were born with. They've just been added to and augmented.

[@MarcillaSmith]

@@Rebelliouso Fair enough - neurons do not get replaced, and yet they can and do regrow their axons and dendrites - and there are billions of them. If I went to sleep tonight, and a nanobot replaced one of my neurons with an artificial substitute, would I notice in the morning? Perhaps, but I doubt it

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

This brings a new meaning to your mom saying “Do your chores or I’ll turn off your video games”

[@user-ow9uo8mc4f]

👂👁👃👄👁👂holy shit

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

@@user-ow9uo8mc4f shouldn’t the mouth be under the nose?

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

👂👁👃👁👂 👅

[@glitchedzenkokitsune9703]

@@user-ow9uo8mc4f 👂. 👂 👁👃👁 👅.

[@xXxlLEGENDZlxXx]

@@glitchedzenkokitsune9703 that face creepy as fuck 😆

[@Randy_Flamethrower]

Best part about this channel is he gets RIGHT into the content. Doesn't ask you to like, subscribe, sign up for his patreon, or any of that.

[@winterkrash]

The saying “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” has never been so apt. Also, that “The Room” reference is golden! 😂

[@elitedestroyer0083]

I don't mind as long as the simulation gods regularly update my manga.

[@chip5892]

This is the right mindset.

[@Rider_of_red]

The only correct take

[@CRzyHDedJHny]

I approve this comment

[@Ahab1765]

This is how i feel already

[@nkosibless2253]

One piece

[@Jessepigman69]

Imagine the full server reset because bugs and lag killing us all again

[@FaceInTheCrowd]

Begs the question: would you trust Microsoft with your "life"?

[@user-uc4vg4rg9e]

Sound like something from the scp foundation 🤣

[@lazyman456talio7]

Exactly this is a terrible idea 💡

[@lazyman456talio7]

@@FaceInTheCrowd no

[@gabrieljordan8015]

This guy always gives me existential anxiety. I think I'll watch his videos more often.

[@genkiferal7178]

it builds character

[@navareeves8976]

same

[@Dumb-Comment]

"Summit is the fastest computer on the planet, Fugaku is 3 times faster"

[@RC-nq7mg]

Interesting thing about super computers is that they cannot be measured equally, not can a comparison of a certain number of consumer computers be compared to a super computer. These numbers are usually compared using the systems FLOPs rating (floating point operations per second). Super computers are very specialized architecture designed for very specialized tasks. An x86 or RISC based CPU will handle general tasks more efficiently than a super computer. Not saying a super computer wouldn't be able to do it, they could with flying colours, but they would do it so much less efficiently than a system with a large instruction set. Its raw mathematical computation where they shine, not complex operations.

[@chicken2jail545]

We just need to upload our being into Thoughty's Moustache. #stachelane

[@moofymoo]

I used to have nightmare I still remember - waking up as only a head floating in some pale yellowish goo bath with other heads, got scared, freaked out, and then woke up in this reality. I hope it is just a Matrix themed nightmare.

[@paulgoogol2652]

It wasn't a dream.

[@yourmother6045]

It wasn't a dream. (1)

[@googleplaystore4242]

It wasn't a dream (2)

[@rgerber]

It wasn't a dream (3)

[@lazyman456talio7]

Yo such a cool 😎 underated comment

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

I would love it if you made a video about why when you smell something, it brings back certain memories

[@patrickwilson7378]

That needs explaining to you???

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

Yes, why does your brain do that? What makes it meaningful, questions like that.

[@patrickwilson7378]

Well, it's because your senses are all interconnected to your mind, which is somewhat of a whole body thing. It has to do with memories. Even people who have lost a leg or arm often feel it is still there. Almost as if the "spirit" of the lost limb remains. It's the same with smells, sounds, feelings, etc. It's not always just your brain that remembers but the body as a "whole". Some people have memories and/or remember things from their past lives or can connect to those former lifetimes through hypnosis, experience during meditation, astral body experiences, etc. And it really doesn't matter if you believe in reincarnation or not. It's is a fact of being and will be scientifically proven fairly soon. There is, and has been research ongoing into reincarnation for some time now. Especially at the University of Virginia with very young children who recall past lives or can speak other languages from past lives even before they can read or write, as well as recall places they've lived before with prefect accuracy or recall historical people or things they haven't yet been exposed to. Check it out.

[@giovannidemarinis1345]

@@patrickwilson7378 thanks for that detailed answer!! Even though I no longer have that question, don’t you think that would make a cool video idea for Thoughty2 to explain?

[@agalah408]

If your nose runs and your feet smell, it means that you have been built upside down

[@enlightenedsoul8897]

I think the concept of uploading your brain to a computer and gaining all the knowledge from the Internet is an amazing idea. You would excel as an individual dramatically and with this knowledge you could gain even more information because you would know how, and you could excel too have the mind way beyond any living genius but it is very easy to exploit if put in the wrong hands

[@freightshaka4193]

Idc what anyone says. This guy is hilariously informative. Seriously. Love his content!

[@patrickmcdonald8513]

Alright, it's got to be said..."Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could they didn't stop to think if they should!"-Ian Malcolm

[@MarcillaSmith]

We were going to, but it wasn't billable

[@brett6905]

"Yea but people are notorious for being horrible at predicting what will turn out in the long run to be good or bad. Whether or not you should, just depends on a persons belief system and reasoning abilities. There is no objective right or wrong answer" -Me

[@brickbrigade]

I’ve never been so happy to feel hungry. Right now I feel as if I have a higher sense of my mortality...

[@venusplatoon2839]

i remember watching your OG videos with the intro theme song YEARS ago. been trying to catch up on the past few years of missed videos recently. this channel has really taken off, congrats!

[@Guust_Flater]

"You" are not the "same" person as you was 7 years ago. In that time all the cells in your body are replaced.....You're constantly renewing yourself, so there is a moment that nothing of your old self is still around. So the theory of replacing your body, bit by bit, seems technically feasible.

[@Karel1]

Yeah like uploading your Consciousness in steps or like in parts.

[@WAX1138]

Continuity of consciousness

[@wjamesm1001]

I wonder which is going to be more feasible this or altering of DNA to reveres or halt the aging process

[@Johansen1000]

Even IF you could upload your brain, it would still not be you, it would just a a copy of you, like if you copied yourself at the age of 20 by the time you're 30 your copy would still be 20 years old and not the same person.

[@lamontmitchell1734]

Thats what I am thinking right ?! How do I live for ever if it is a copy. It’s not me 🤷🏽‍♂️

[@kinglucifer7770]

Your copy can evolve just like ai can evolve

[@Johansen1000]

@@kinglucifer7770 Would still not be you or evolve into you, unless you literally have an AI that can predict your entire life in advanced with 100% accuracy, every thought you are ever going to have and every decision you're ever going to make, in a simulated version of Earth that also have to be predict with 100% accuracy for every single living organism that is capable of making decisions, like it would have to be able to predict the lottery numbers 20 years from now, it would have to be able to predict if someone wins and losses in a game of Poker that would make completely different decisions just based on that. So in other words completely impossible.

[@kinglucifer7770]

@@Johansen1000 AI are really powerful and you could just imput your life experiences or let it become its own person it does not and probably cant be you unless we figure out what conscious is and if it is moveable

[@WAX1138]

Indeed that is the question. There would have to be a conduit for consciousness to move from point A to B with continuity of consciousness. Or perhaps replace/augment the brain slowly over time.

[@_Daio_]

My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison.

[@lonelytortoise7096]

Human : successfuly uploaded brain HighlvlAI : welcome to our world

[@jayfin3950]

Original Title: "Could the Entire Human Race Live Inside a Computer?"

[@tomkent5929]

Why does he always change it 😭

[@eh8888]

@@tomkent5929 I’m guessing it’s an algorithm tactic when a video isn’t getting a certain number of interactions.

[@derekschommer1465]

@@tomkent5929 probably picks a name as a placeholder while KZbin is doing the processing on the video and by the time it's done decides on a better one and it probably doesn't instantly change on youtube.

[@xitcix8360]

@@tomkent5929 I'm guessing it's so people will unwittingly click on the video a second time believing it's a different video.

[@sanctred]

I am guessing... oh wait never mind I don’t care. 😙

[@Benzinilinguine]

So what you're telling me is The End of Eva was a prediction of the future? That'll be quite impactful.

[@mojorisin069]

That episode of black mirror is great. The only one with a happy ending.

[@bwestacado9643]

One of my favorite episodes

[@mboiko]

Just watch the show "Upload" on Amazon prime it's the same exact premise...

[@bwestacado9643]

@@mboiko I'll have to check it out, I got Prime

[@disasterdinosaur2925]

This is exactly like the game SOMA. Fantastic game I highly recommend it

[@chrishall9892]

your transition to the sponsor is as seamless as ever i see.

[@Reclusiarch_jakal]

c$

[@postprophet6384]

I’d be nervous af about having my consciousness stuck in a computer forever, I get claustrophobic just sitting in my living room.

[@explosionbruh1875]

same my friend..... same........

[@derpmcgerp8062]

EXACTLY. I was looking for this comment. I don't know why more people aren't talking about that. That would be absolutely terrifying. The human mind isn't meant to be confined like that. Lmao

[@anno5936]

Being claustrophobic will be a minor issue... just imagine you're stuck in a virtual reality with everyone you hardly like and outright dislike FOREVER, you'll go mad.

[@postprophet6384]

@@anno5936 I may be already there. Lol

[@anno5936]

@@postprophet6384 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@nazsiwagemelas9359]

@Thoughty2 Your production is getting more refined and artsier, I like it!

[@cosmicanomaly3416]

I just need 1 of 2 things to die happy, Either be capable of living my videosgames by uploading my conscious to a virtual world or get tf out of earth and travel through space.

[@brendonchilders3063]

This could be the future way to record history. Imagine year 3021 and being able to communicate directly with every soldier of the war of 2037.

[@RAMBO14001]

Weird approach, but ok.

[@lazyman456talio7]

@@minecraftguy1400 wait there another war

[@insane_troll]

How do you know about the war of 2037?

[@StefanVeenstra]

“Yeah, sir, could you please relive your traumatic experiences? I need it for a B- in history class, thanks.”

[@Dexter037S4]

War of 2021, Buddy.

[@naingchanmyae]

You are a good friend and ally. Gilgamesh will remember this.

[@aesaehttr]

"that's a lot of 'One Direction'... And nobody wants that." LMAO

[@michaelboyle8444]

"And that's what I've done. Maintained it for 20 years. This old brooms had 17 new heads and 14 new handles in its time"

[@rivera147]

You alright Trig?

[@ahuddleston6512]

Fools and Horses! You've got to love it!

[@shigeminotoge4514]

Anyone who is fascinated by this concept NEEDS to play the game Soma. Not optional.

[@harryschaefer5887]

"The last moments of Karl Brant" deals with the moment your switch is turned off/ plug is pulled.

[@ginoviage7123]

If we could load our brains into computers, it means we have discovered immortality

[@gargantuanclaymore6824]

Love the wee calm tune that's always in the background of the videos man.

[@Kingofportals]

At least we can upload a Worm’s consciousness into the internet.

[@PowerofRock24]

I'm watching this while playing a video game with a digital 1:1 creation of the entire Milky Way galaxy as the map... yeah, we're closer than we think.

[@zeekjones1]

Forgot about time dilatation, a digital world could be downclocked a factor until computing power can reach real time processing. We could then communicate via video messaging, to make up for the delay between worlds.

[@patrickhannon4217]

19:27 reminded me of Only Fools and Horses Trigger: This broom has had 14 new heads and 17 new handles LOL

[@rgerber]

The thing is soething like: If it would work, whoever does it first would probably never be able to tell. Or he would live forever and in great pain or life in an artificial void forever and also not able to tell anyone. Could be pretty scary stuff

[@heikkijhautanen4576]

That transition to ur sponsor was Priceless :D

[@christophertumblin5889]

Lol you know you fuck with somebody when you legit enjoy watching in-video ads bc it means the grind is paying off

[@TheProGam3rHD]

Incorrect, we're all already living inside a computer.

[@justarandombird]

What if we are already part of a simulation in which we all meet cos our simulations somehow intertwine.. the fact that we die is just us ending the simulation and waking up irl

[@curiodyssey3867]

Oh wow super original thought bro

[@justarandombird]

XD thx, i've been having this taught for years now... still working out how this all could be real and somewhat more understandable

[@justarandombird]

@@PaulElmont-fd1xc that's indeed a very intresting theory. I'd say that is indeed a possibility :D

[@StefanVeenstra]

Digital you: “Ah, now I can finally live forever...” Blackout/EMP/Short-circuitry: “Yeah, about that...”

[@TheProGam3rHD]

"The yellow emperor..." Couldn't get any more stereotypical than that folks.

[@funkydown]

lmao

[@seekkyle4230]

Could always create back ups of your mind and when your body is destroyed, upload your mind to a younger, pristine clone of yourself

[@robertsollory7475]

What would we all do without Thoughty 2? I can't remember life before I discovered this channel. I do have memories.... But was it all real? That's the question.

[@RoyaltyFreeVideoClips]

About every seven years the cells of our body die and are replaced by new cells. 'I inherited my body from a dead man' - Neil Gaiman

[@JustwatchingYouTube42]

The clone diverges from the base upon sentience thus they become individual; if an individual ceases to experience upon initiation of the clone sentience that clone becomes the individual since there is no conflicting experience. The best illustration of this is in the "Altered Carbon" book and TV series.

[@Kneirros]

Your voice is phenomenally soothing.

[@tomohawk5567]

Don't you mean soofing 👍

[@Berserkism]

The outcome? Something like the movie, Event Horizon. Count me out. This whole idea is a nightmare of unfathomable proportions.

[@loiclejeune2877]

you upload a lot for your type of content keep it going, love it

[@Xehemoth]

Well thoughty2, that was interesting and far more terrifying than I ever thought possible. Thanks for that.

[@biggiejeffrey]

To quote the Twelfth Doctor: "Being immortal isn't living forever. It means watching everyone else DIE."

[@suadfaraj5712]

I honestly thought that long before anyone else, the doctor gave us the answer.

[@user-vt8uf5gy1g]

That applies to stories where only one person becomes immortal. The video describes technology that everyone would use. If the technology failed and everyone else died you would too.

[@biggiejeffrey]

@@user-vt8uf5gy1g But that's just it: not everyone will be able to afford to live forever, and some will just refuse it because of personal reasons. Therefore, a lot of people aren't going to be living forever. So why would you want to if someone you love can't or won't be able to live forever?

[@user-vt8uf5gy1g]

@@biggiejeffrey Well definitely no one should be forced to be immortal if they'd just be lonely the whole time. I think it would just be up to the individual, if you lived a million years and got bored suicide is always an option. That aside though, I think in a future with this sci-fi level of tech, the money paradigm may have also changed such that scooping up every consciousness on Earth into the matrix isn't limited by people's bank accounts.

[@biggiejeffrey]

@Alexander Diaz What if they don't want to? What about personal choice & free will? (this was the problem with the Cybermen in the first place, remember?)

[@nathanrice6589]

I envision getting a message like this.. "Your consciousness upload will need to be deleted to make room for latest windows 55 updates"

[@dynamicflashy]

Can you imagine the unskippable ads in this consciousness?

[@iamalone8093]

I’m seeing a lot of jokes about adds and power failure, but I think a lot of people are ignoring a truly horrific possibility around the idea of a digital copy. Imagine a world where you are told that you can upload yourself to a digital world. Maybe you even have a friend who transitioned to being digital a little while ago. You decide that sounds amazing, so you decide to upload yourself. You arrange all the paperwork and pay for the procedure. The doctors tell you that they will knock you out, and when you wake, you will be digital. You wake up. You are still in the room you were knocked out in. You demand to know why the doctors have not done what they promised. They tell you the procedure is complete. “Is this the digital world?” You ask. “No, this is the real world.” They tell you. “Then why am I still here?!” You demand. What they tell you next horrifies you. “You are the leftovers.”

[@Matthew_007]

And immediately tipped down a chute marked "animal food products"...... Great twist for a film ending..... 😂

[@crushbeast29]

I'd rather die as a human than a bunch of particles in a computer.

[@andyespinozam]

Black Mirror has a really good sneak peak of this. Just great.

[@paulohagan3309]

Which episode please?

[@andyespinozam]

@@paulohagan3309 Althuugh the series hints at tech (some dots that you put close to your forehead, specifically the episode called San Junipero is about this.

[@paulohagan3309]

@@andyespinozam Thank you!

[@daleksix1396]

This 'Singularity' of course, _sounds_ good on paper but, seeing all the other things you have to account for instills feelings of trepidation, anxiety and finally, abject terror... Thanks T2, you saved me from myself, again... ;)

[@k3nz1e73]

I’m just gonna pretend that I know what you are talking about.

[@AluneTheShaman]

@@k3nz1e73 yeah me too I guess we aren’t shining bright enough

[@diogeneslantern18]

I really enjoy Thoughty2 but listen to people actually involved with the concept eg Ben Goertzel and Joscha Bach. Watch the Lex Fridman podcast if you want to hear some _really_ interesting people

[@NuLuumo]

At first I thought you meant Terminator 2 🤣

[@tristanruusmaa4571]

How does it even sound good on paper?

[@mr.j1003]

Instead of making a copy, the body should be put in a hibernation state where only the brain is active. The person's conciousness would be living in the program and could be being uploaded as their physical bodies live out their lifespans, and when the body dies, the conciousness living in the simulation would "be the same person". Since the physical body's conciousness would be living in the computer the entire time, they won't have to compare their still aging, mortal selves to it, and with this method, the uploaded conciousness WOULD be them because throughout their lives and up to their death, their conciousness would have been out of their body. But tbh, i prefer the thought of a physically immortal human race, shooting through space. That's much cooler.

[@agalah408]

So...I intend to live forever. First 60 years...Tick. So far, so good.

[@mackie73]

Ain't that cute. People living in a simulation, creating a simulation for immortality.

[@athulrajeev8229]

Short answer: No Long answer: It's complicated

[@xitcix8360]

Well actually yes. Just because there are two instances of you does not mean you haven't uploaded your mind.

[@estranhokonsta]

@@xitcix8360 Are those two instances the same? What is an instance of conscience? What is even a correct definition of consciousness in scientific terms, not those general and nebulous ones that suffices in everyday life use for normal people? Nobody knows what it is really and how it appears in the brain. The so called mind upload is the projection of the neurons functionality and network into some kind of software or at least the upload of the very little of what we think those are. A photo is also a projection of your appearance into a paper, is it the same as what your eyes see? tldr: Theory is not reality.

[@xitcix8360]

@wiktorpolak That's untrue.

[@xitcix8360]

​@@estranhokonsta Yes those two instances are the same. Consciousness is merely an illusion, you are a collection of memories and protocols that give you the idea of free will. You do not have free will. The mind upload would most likely be an advanced 3d scan of the brain, we would not need to understand it fully. A photo is only projecting appearance on a timeless 2-dimensional plane, but the scan would project into a 3-dimensional space with time. Theory is reality a lot of the time.

[@quantipl1186]

@@xitcix8360 that doesnt matter im not okay with having a copy of me having a great time

[@farpointgamingdirect]

I bought your book on kindle and I'm enjoying it immensely!

[@SteveDorrans]

"We own you" could actually become a real threat...