Jean Laval Chue HimDirector| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty LtdSydney, Nsw, Australia
Extending human life infinitely using technology is a topic that has been making rounds lately. But is it possible? According to a recent article from a reputable organization by a contributor, technology will soon allow the personality, knowledge, and everything that makes a person to be uploaded into a computer and then downloaded into a new body. However, some experts believe that this is simply hype. They argue that a computer is just a collection of electrical circuits that cannot understand human emotions, thoughts, and knowledge. Even with AI programs, it is unlikely that a computer will ever fully comprehend human feelings, emotions and life experiences. What do you think? Is extending human life through technology a possibility or just a myth? Share your thoughts. Saving Changes...
George FreemanThought Leader | Author | Architect| Florida, United States
Apr 25, 2024 5:51 PM
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Hi Hrishikesh, good point you raise, but as George noted this AI representation of our emotions, feelings, intelligence and consciousness will be a mimicry of us when alive as it will be based on previous data encoded into logical codes. But the deep thoughts of our heart, our subconscious will we be able to digitise it? So then the question will be can we have our Real human being (I mean our Real self) back into another body to ensure eternal living on earth? The good thing is that if possible this will allow us to escape diseases in one body and change to a new body. And continue to live ourselves in a new body younger version of ourselves without suffering. What I also would like to know is if we encode the actions and feelings we keep in a diary how will we represent emotional pain, joy, Love and other subconscious of our mind, into logical AI codes based lets say on a mathematical model? Also, these will differ from person to person. Love means different things to different individuals. How will we be able to make the machine generate the correct electrical pulses or at a higher abstraction, binary codes to represent Love for each individual?
Jean,
I’m not an expert in this area, but based on my observations and studies in domains that touch on these ideals, I have strong opinions. So, let me address your last paragraph.
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What we “Know” and what we “Feel” as humans are two different things; when they align, we should say, “Wow, it happened.” However, the idea that such a logical partition exists is heretical for many, as what they feel is what they know, so many would disagree with this premise (a topic for another time).
That said, the emotional components of our brain operate on a different plane (i.e., set of rules) than the rest of our conscious being. I’m stating this to say that what we “know” (i.e., our thoughts) is structurable and persistable knowledge, but what we “feel” is disjunctive and lacks the qualities that allow persistence.
Hence, an intelligent agent can legalistically describe emotions and present a mimicry of them by logically forecasting an outcome based on previously learned patterns. But in all cases, emotions as humans understand them are beyond the reach of AI.
George Saving Changes...
Jean Laval Chue HimDirector| Stella Aurorae Accountants Pty LtdSydney, Nsw, Australia
Apr 25, 2024 6:42 AM
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Depends on how do you define "infinite life".
It wont be possible to make someone live physically forever, but with the evolution of generative AI, I would argue that the feelings, emotions could also be digitized in the future. What I mean is: The AI models would only need a good, representative training data to reproduce or predict what will be coming next. If you show the generative AI model a digital diary of what your day looked like, what were the problems you were faced with, how you went about solving them, and you feed it the data for a number of years, you will be close to obtaining a digital clone of yourself. The model can then predict how you would react to a certain situations in the future. So, digitally you will be alive forever. Sounds scary? ;) You will still have to work hard to be a ditially-immortal :)
Yes Hrishikesh well said we could maybe mimic a person digitally although not completely, but the person will be dead even if his memory or digital copy will live for his loved ones. It's like preserving islands that are sinking due to climate change digitally. We cannot reproduce the smell of the island or its sandy beaches or winds but we can save a mimic of the island's beauty. But the island will no more be there. Saving Changes...
Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Technology is a boarder term. A pencil is a technology. In my humble opinion, we need to be clear and specific when we use some terms. A key behavior as a component to make an initiative sucesful or not. Saving Changes...
