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Hi all

Earlier this month, hundreds of scientists and officials convened at a United Nations Assembly to discuss projects that work towards gaining a more complete understanding of the brain.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/big-dreams-emerge-big-brain-science-projects

This got me thinking about the future possibility of turning an analysis of the brain into an interactive simulation of it. In other words, creating a virtual clone of someone's mind.

If you could clone your mind into a digital presence on your computer, what would you ask your clone to do?

Write your essays and assignments for you? Play games for you? Send your emails for you? Talk to friends for you?

If you could clone someone else's mind, who's would you clone and why?

Looking forward to reading your responses

Blasty

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29-Sep-2016 16:57:49 - Last edited on 29-Sep-2016 17:03:14 by Blasty

29-Sep-2016 17:17:16

new thread next week on what comes out on the other side if u teleport urself?

29-Sep-2016 23:15:57

I found out about the new spider pet from the hallowe'en event and it reminded me of this thread, haha

http://i.imgur.com/nsh7R5l.jpg

(same image for forumers who haven't installed linkify)

Blasty

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25-Oct-2016 07:07:22 - Last edited on 25-Oct-2016 07:07:49 by Blasty

Lil Indecent said :
Spent 5 minutes thinking about this and I kept going off on so many tangents. I believe I'm mostly a product of my environment and thus a duplicate of my mind would also (perhaps more so) be a product of its environment. Meaning it would no longer be my mind. So I'm not even sure where that puts things in regard to your question.

But to give an answer, I don't think I'd get it to do anything. By that I mean I wouldn't use it as a tool to perform tasks. But I may have plenty to discus with it.

The first thing I'd ask is, tell me your dreams.

I really like that you point out the significance of the environment on the state of the virtual consciousness.

I've been pondering and working on a little neural network-like project and I've been finding more and more that complexity in the environment is a catalyst for complexity in the AI agent. A neural network adjusts itself to maximise some criteria, and the complexity of the neural network will only go as far as the complexity of the criteria and environment. A neural network for playing Go will learn to play Go extremely well, and will get better and better the more it is trained. At some point, will the network eventually gain properties that emulate consciousness though? Is there a need for it in that environment? When you limit the scope of perceptions and actions to the game of Go, is it even possible to form a definition of consciousness and awareness of the "self" that is performing those actions?

You're definitely not alone in going on tangents haha

I'm curious about whether you meant dreams as in the sensations during sleep, or as in aspirations and ambitions

I think both are interesting to think about - from what I understand, sleep is a complex combination of biological functions as well as the interactions between neurons themselves. A virtual consciousness would have to account for both to accurately emulate a dream-like experience.

Blasty

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25-Oct-2016 07:28:24 - Last edited on 25-Oct-2016 11:50:04 by Blasty

25-Oct-2016 07:32:49