The other day I was reading a research paper about a futuristic theory of uploading a human mind. The very thoughtful computer scientist and psychologist suggested that if a living person uploaded a sound mind into a computer system, and if that computerized mind was able to have consciousness, then it would quickly diverge from the first, almost as soon as it had an independent thought. That's an interesting concept isn't it? Sure it is, so let's go ahead and talk about this for second shall we?
Have you ever backed up your computer system? Perhaps you are paranoid and you back it up in multiple places? Perhaps you've copied it to a DVD disc, a backup hard drive, and your most important data to a thumb drive that can store most everything you have written. If you've done this, you are not alone, and you are probably a pretty smart individual, or you've dealt with the tragedy of losing your data before. It only has to happen once to cause you to back up your computer religiously.
Okay so, what if you backed up your human mind in several places. What if you stored your mind on personal computers, in the cloud, and on the latest and greatest backup drive in the future? In essence you would have uploaded with three different copies of your mind, and as long as any of those computer systems had energy going through them, that is if these minds were able to achieve consciousness, then they would all be having thoughts. Since those thoughts would be without the humans organic sensors; eyes, ears, tongue, and ability to feel for instance, those minds would have different thoughts and experiences based on this new environment.
Therefore those minds would have spent their time with different ways of thinking. This mind divergence would actually become very great in a very limited amount of time, perhaps even within a week or two. These cloned minds, would become minds of their own, unlike your organic brain and therefore they would be different entities, even if they started out with the same basis. If each individual mind was different, each would need a different name, or way to tell them apart.
Further, if you were to upload the thoughts and experiences the you had during that week which may have changed your perception or your attitude about a given event or conclusion, you might find that the minds would argue amongst themselves almost immediately. At that point you couldn't put them back together without having some sort of inner conflict, schizophrenic type reaction, or perception base personal struggle. You see that point?
Psychologists are going to have to figure all that out, and good luck to the first person whose mind is uploaded, re-sync'ed, or a downloaded copy is used to replace the original which isn't functioning properly anymore. Please consider all this and think on it.
Lance Winslow has launched a new provocative series of eBooks on Future Concepts. Lance Winslow is a retired Founder of a Nationwide Franchise Chain, and now runs the Online Think Tank; http://www.worldthinktank.net
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