Imagine a human brain scanned in detail and reconstructed in a computer simulation. This person’s mind and memories, emotions and personality are copied. So he probably is it will have an immortal and digital form. This futuristic possibility is called mind uploading. Brain and consciousness science disciplines say thought copying is probable, and there are no laws of physics to be preserved.

Currently, there is much more time for this type of technology, but studies focused on this area shows that copying thoughts is inevitable. Of course, it is impossible to be sure how such a development will affect our cultures, but as simulation technology and neural networks continue to evolve, we can predict what the future of thought copying will hold.

Suppose one day in the future you go to the cloning clinic to have your brain scanned. Let’s assume the technology has been tested and works flawlessly. It perfectly replicates all your synapses and recreates your unique mind. You with your voice and your face a virtual body Let’s say you recreate it in a high-end game-like environment.

What will happen next?

First, you maintain your biological existence. As a mortal, you walk home from the clinic and you may think that the money you spent on this job has been wasted. In the meantime you, transferred to the simulation, wake up in a virtual apartment, it feels just like you. There is continuity of experience, it remembers everything that you went to the clinic, paid and made there. He feels sedated during the procedure and then wakes up in a completely different environment. It has everything you have: your memories, your personality…

Your simulation status You decide to explore the outside. You will find the virtual version of the city you live in. The sounds, the smells, the places to visit all resemble the real thing, maybe even better than the real thing. You go out and try to talk to strangers. You know that the virtual body cannot be hurt here. You go to the cafe where you always come and order coffee. However, you don’t get the taste you’re used to, you don’t feel anything entering your stomach. Because what you drink not real coffee and you don’t have a real stomach. Everything is simulation. The visual details are not flawless either. When you hold your breath, it is not like in the real world because there is no oxygen in the virtual world.

You will find your simulation phone as your simulation status. You are looking for your true self. When you pick up the phone, your real self, maybe your simulated self, tells you that you wasted his money. Your simulation status talks about how great it is for your real self, or maybe even someone you know who recently passed away.

What kind of relationship would you have with the simulation? Someone you’ll never meet.

The biological you lives in the real world, the simulated you lives in a virtual world. Maybe we don’t even need to meet. After all, today we can communicate through social media and meet many people without ever meeting in person. with yourself via video call You can also contact us. For example, you can chat with deceased relatives on holidays.

For the virtual other world, we can call it a kind of man-made paradise. But the difference from heaven as we know it is that it is connected to the real world.

actually this It also somewhat resembles our current lifestyle. Maybe you communicate with more people on social media than in real life. The majority of people you contact may be in the virtual world.

Think about the work we do in the real world. Many require physical handling and these tasks are likely to be performed by autonomous robots in the future. Many jobs performed by humans today will, in the medium and long term, result from human domination. Robots and artificial intelligence will take over these tasks. In the created simulation world, people can continue to do their own work.

This article was translated, summarized, and localized from the article handled by Michael SA Graziano, professor of psychology and neuroscience at Princeton University. The full article and the original can be found here.