Musk's brain?Digital "eternal life" may be fantasies | Yangtze River comment

Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said on a social platform that he has uploaded his brain to the cloud and has talked to his virtual version.

What does Musk the so -called uploading the brain to the cloud? Many media explanations are that it means that humans can use U disks and memory cards to store memory to achieve "eternal life". With Musk what he said, "people can save and replace memory, and can download memory to a new body or robot body."

This view obviously believes that people's memory can be separated from the flesh of ease, through digitalization, realize immortality, and can also realize "human -machine symbiosis". A alternative of not old ".

However, the key to uploading the brain to the cloud is the "digital survival" of the brain, and the first level of the digitalization of the brain is to realize the current so -called "human -machine interface" and to extract the huge amount of data in the brain through digital technology. Simten and restore the brain. It is actually in the first step, that is, the data in the brain is extracted through the "human -machine interface". Even in such a stage, humans have not fully mastered the theoretical and engineering technologies.

What humans can do now are just connecting the human brain to some terminals and control the computer program or some machinery to achieve certain actions. Some progress has been made in this regard, such as controlling some smart devices through ideas. But what is human consciousness, we still know half -knowledge and want to digitize it and extract it. At present, it is probably just a scientific fantasy. Musk claimed that he had uploaded his brain to the cloud, maybe he just said casually that we couldn't take it seriously.

Musk owns a neurotic technology and brain interface company. In view of his success in Tesla and space exploration companies, many people believe that Musk will promote milestone technology progress in "conscious eternal life" and "human -machine symbiosis". But in fact, in this field, Musk is far from being called "leaders". In recent years, there have been some brain -machine interface companies in the United States that have realized some commercialization. For example, through the brain interface, neurological diseases such as depression, insomnia, pain, stroke, and epilepsy are the same. There are more business.

But Musk's idea is not nothing. American Kuzwell published a book called "Strange Point" in 2005. The book predicted that by 2045, human beings will move towards eternal life because of "brain machine fusion" and "human -machine fusion". This is a scientific prediction, far from reality, and Musk is pursuing far away. The digital "eternal life" that humans finally realize may not be a perfect eternal life of individual memories, but it may be a similar matter or alternative to memory of eternal life.

Whether it is "preservation and replacement memory" or "downloading memories into a new body or robot body", as human technology advances, I am afraid that they will be reality in the future. We still have some firm beliefs, such as spiritual meat, but if someone has achieved digital extraction and preserving individual consciousness, there should still be many people rushing.

【Edit: Zheng Xiaoxiao】

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