Mind Uploading

         Mind uploading. An idea that frightens many, when they really consider it. The idea of a human mind being simply moved from body to body or altered or infected with a virus is disturbing to most people. And most, when they think of ths console themselves with " It doesn't exist." In my opinion, it is merely a matter of time. You simply map the entire neuronal connections of the person, then the use different hueristics to have a baseline of neuronal function, and translate that, with multiple algorithms to change this interaction of virtual neurons into short algorithms, or into lines of code. The main problems with this is ethics and technology. I theorize that even when you "compress" a human mind in such a way, the product, simply a human mind with a different translation, will still not run in the fastest computer today. This is because of space. The average human memory is currently thought to be around two petabytes. To put this in perspective, it is one thousand terabytes, or one million gigabytes. Even though the amount of memory used in most people certainly isn't this large, but the amount already used in even a young child most be extraordinary. Now to ethics. Of course, people are going to have issues about this. Is that upload still a person? Or are they simply a copy, or worse a artifice? The list goes on and on. Then their is the problem of the mind-body relation. In many circles, it is believed that the body is intrinsicly connected to the consciousness. As in, the consciousness without the body is absurd, sort of like having software just there, in space with no hardware to be attached to, virtual or physical. I agree, but since this is probably correct, what do we make for them? A physical body possibly a robot or even a organic clone with an attachment for their download, or do they not even need that, and we could simply give them anything, as long as they express action in some shape or form? But I think through trial and err, and horrible, horrible mistakes, eventually all of these problems will be destroyed. Its only a matter of time.