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Gilgamesh on 27 November 2014
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RenCutypoison said:
Gilgamesh said:

Are we on the brink of creating artificial life? Scientists digitise the brain of a WORM and place it inside a robot

  • The OpenWorm global project is making a 'digital' worm
  • Their project is recreating the neurons and cells in C. elegans
  • It is the simplest organism we know of but has similarities to humans
  • By making a digital worm the team hope to create artificial life
  • They have implanted the digital 'mind' of the worm into a Lego machine
  • In a video it acts and behaves just like the worm would in the real world
  • Next year the team will allow people to download their own digital worm 

A-Life is a technical word already in use for something that already existed for years.
OT I want to become a digital being. That sounds fun. Feeding on knowledge with no other needs.

I get what your saying to live as long as you want in a life like humanoid robot would be quite interesting with all the knowledge of the interent, but the moment that you copy your brain how does it work that your mind is now in two places at once, sure you now have an exact copy of yourself but from now on what the robot experiences will be difference to what you experience, the longer this goes on the more different you both become. Now let's say your about to die from some horrible disease and your copy of yourself is in the robot, when you die how is your conscious going to jump to the robot? Wouldn't you just cease to exist and now this copy of yourself will continue to be you and act like you and really is you from other peoples perspective but really the original conscious is dead and gone.

The only way I can figure it to work is that you have to die first and then have your brain and conscious immediately transfer to the robot. 

I'm mind fucking myself here.