This initiation may be the most difficult of all, for you must integrate this Higher Light of your SELF, first into your third and fourth dimensional consciousness and then into your physical body. We ask this because you are among the volunteers of the Planetary Ascension Team, and among the most courageous of all Earth humans.
It is a great honor to take part in this event, one which you have prepared for in many incarnations. Being a vanguard, in your society, means that you will likely suffer much judgment. You have taken this challenge even though you feel the fear rising up within you. It is fine for you to feel fear; it is part of the human condition. However, do not allow your fear to stop you, which I am sure you will NOT! You have continued your process, one step at a time, and are now prepared for the next level.
Since you are in a timeframe where your society is still largely ruled by the darkness and fear, ignorance is bliss to many of your citizens. However, do not fear, as your ascension is assured.
You ARE raising your vibration of others, as well as the vibration of others. Those who are the leaders often feel alone, for they are at the head of the pack. You are among the Wayshowers, the Scouts who go ahead to find the best Way. Also, Remember, my One, the first shall be the last. The Captain is always the last one to leave the sinking ship. You, and the rest of the Ground Crew, but will not have to do so now, as you have returned to assist Gaia in Her ascension.
Times may seem very bleak, but that is how it always is at the initiation of the ascension process. First the darkness must be faced before your own inner light can be amplified. I can easily imagine given the above assumptions of technology how a computer running the brain software could control a biological body, but I have a far harder time imagine how to download a brain network into a recipient brain.
Somehow we need to rearrange all the connections to correspond to the downloaded person. That is an extremely tricky thing even with mature nanotechnology, since many neurons stretch across much of the entire brain and now need to be re-routed. And many other issues easily come to mind: can you lose your right to have a body? Can you sell it? Rent it? Is it a bad thing that you can treat it as disposable? But this does not really say anything about whether it is a moral thing to move between bodies, just that there are a lot of social context that matters.
Some people would say the whole idea is wrong because it is against nature: humans are not meant to be immortal body-hoppers. But that something is natural does not mean it is moral or acceptable: we do fight cancer and cruelty, despite both being parts of natural life.
A slightly more sophisticated version argues that human life is shaped by its mortality and other features, so a change would make us something not-human and hence it is not good for humans to aspire to it. But this by this argument monkeys should not seek to become humans enjoying art, science, religion, sport etc.
This seems backwards to me: we can enjoy monkey pleasures too, and we have removed many of the limitations of being a monkey.
Similarly being a potentially immortal body-hopper removes some pretty big limitations in life yet still allows us to limit ourselves if we so chooses. Many like to say that it is the human limitations that make us human.
I suspect that no matter how advanced we become we will always bump into limitations that we will struggle with. Some thinkers worry that if we enhance ourselves we will try to control everything in our lives. Everything of ourselves will be a potential object of design and engineering, and this both will make it less authentic and make us frustrated as we constantly tinker with it.
But that just seem to mean we should culture the virtue of enhancing ourselves wisely and responsibly rather than not being able to enhance oneself. Would it make sense to call oneself human if one is actually moving from cortical stack to cortical stack? I think so. Being human is about a particular perspective on the world, a human-style mind with its peculiar biases, motivation system, ways of thinking and feeling, and so on.
A working mind transfer will transfer our human minds to whatever substrate can run them—pure software, a robot, a biological body—and that means that it will now at the very least house a human mind.
Probably, yes. For most scientists the default hypothesis is that everything about our mind and conscious awareness is an emergent consequence of the operations carried out by the biological machinery of the brain.
That hypothesis has withstood every test so far. In principle, if we can understand those operations and implement them, then that new implementation will again produce the mind and conscious awareness. The principal operators in the brain are called neurons. Those tiny processors know nothing except that incoming excitation or inhibition changes their membrane potential.
At some threshold they respond with an electric discharge of their own. Together, the orchestration of billions of neurons is the information processor that plays the symphony that is our experience of being. Because you can then move a mind from brain to brain device , we say you have achieved substrate-independence.
The neural engineering used to do that is called whole brain emulation. In neural engineering today, the first steps towards whole brain emulation are efforts to build neural prostheses - replacement parts for small parts of the brain. Examples are retinal prostheses and the ambitious hippocampal neural prosthesis project at the Berger Lab of the University of Southern California, which should enable patients with a malfunctioning hippocampus to regain the ability to create new memories.
If you can replace each part of the brain with an equivalent neural prosthetic device that is in essence the same as whole brain emulation. At a later stage, when we know how to recover dynamic function from 3D structure scans as well, there may be wholesale methods for whole brain emulation from such scans, yet another path to mind uploading.
Beyond that, neural prosthesis holds the promise of enhanced abilities. Imagine, for example, that you can explicitly choose which things to remember and which ones to forget when you have a hippocampal neural prosthesis. What takes a cat one second might take the Blue Gene supercomputer ten or even a hundred seconds, depending on the complexity of the task. Other barriers to constructing human-scale brain simulations include storage space and sheer processing power.
A complete map of the human brain containing detailed information about each neuron and synapse would occupy about 20, terabytes and require flops floating point operations per second of processing power to function. Nevertheless, the future is bright.
Additionally, as storage capacities continue to increase, it will be more feasible and economical to store digital maps of human brains. As an indicator, in , the largest cortical simulation contained about eight million neurons—the equivalent of half a mouse brain—and just four years later, scientists are capable of emulating brains comprised of over 1. In addition to supercomputers and mind-modeling software, powerful brain-scanning technologies are also at the forefront of efforts to construct virtual brains that might eventually house human consciousness.
According to many neuroscientists, the human mind is really just a complex computer whose function depends on electrochemical processes. In their eyes, if we are able to sufficiently emulate the neural networks that comprise the human brain, it is only natural that intelligence and consciousness should follow.
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