Can we achieve immortality through AI? Or does our existing science and technology have the potential to make us immortal by using trending techniques like mind uploading and biometric data regeneration?
These are some fresh question people starts asking in this generation. Do you want to live forever? Please write in the comment section, with full details.
What if I tell you, you can become immortal by wearing a robotic body and live forever?
An Interesting Story Of Immortality
In Greek mythology, there are two love birds: Tithonus and Aurora. Tithonus is a mortal human. He is the prince of Troy.
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But Aurora is a Goddess of Dawan. So she is an immortal being. Therefore Aurora begs for Tithonu’s immortality with Zeus, so that both can live together forever.
But she makes an error. When Aurora asked Zeus for immortality, she forgot to ask for immortal youth. At the end, Tithonus got older and older and he remains just a bundle of bones, but he could not die.
How do we get old?
Due to aging and destruction, our body becomes older with time, and one day we all die.
If we look at history, most emperors, kings, and explorers have spent their lives in search of fictional eternal youth. But they never got immortality.
As per science, our telomeres shrink over time. It is related to aging and other diseases. Theories tell us that cells stop splitting and growing which leads to aging.
Today we are in the generation of science and new technology. The combination of science and tech has made possible those things which were thought to be impossible in history.
Today we have highly optimized computers and data processing systems. Neuroscience has rapidly grown and we know our biological system far better which never happened before.
Now researchers starts claiming that humans will be able to merge their feelings, memories, and sensations with robots and live a far better life.
Because both humans and robots are driven by algorithms. The only difference is humans use biochemical algorithms and robots have binary programming.
Mind Uploading Technology
What if I tell you? I can download your all information from your brain, store it in a computer chip, and plug it into an artificial robot’s brain.
It is like creating a digital copy of ourselves.
In 2009, three universities launched a scheme called “Human Connectome Project.
This project is an enterprising effort to map the neural pathways that control human brain function.
The main purpose of the project is to gather and reveal information about the human brain’s structure and functional connectivity.
Researchers believe that, if they can download the data from the human brain and store it on a pen drive, they can deploy it in a robot and make it immortal.
Now you can copy this data, forward it and do whatever you like to do.
This is how human’s memories will be safe forever. But how far is this true, and can artificial intelligence make humans immortal?
Billionaires are investing in anti-aging technology
Living a long life, anti-aging and immortality are some of the interesting concepts that humans keep attracted with.
After searching for a long time Scientists have now turned for answers to the immortal artificial intelligence which is capable to store human memories and feelings into a hard disk.
Some of the richest billionaires of Silicon Valley are investing in biomedical research and programming with hopes of finding the secrets to living a long life.
An American physicist and futurist, Michio Kaku says that it is likely to transfer human consciousness into robots.
Kaku believes that one-day humans will be immortal but we don’t exactly know if it is our brain or consciousness.
Because science hasn’t figured out the core connection between body and awareness that connects us as a single component.
The computer and human brain work similarly. Both use electrical signals to transmit information.
Our brain uses chemicals to send information. And the computer uses electricity to transmit and process data.
These electrical signals travel at super speed in the nervous system. However, they can travel even faster through the wires in a computer system.
Due to the high improvements in neuroscience and computing, now we know how our brain functions and what are the consequences of retrieving the brain’s data into a robot’s chip.
Many futurists believe that we will get there in the next few decades.
In some reports, it is shown that the human brain can store 2.5 petabytes of memory which is equal to one million gigabytes of information. Storing information and data processing is a different things.
Our brain can process 11 million bits of information per second. But our conscious mind can handle only 40 to 50 bits of information in a second.
In this matter, supercomputers can process 1000 trillion flops. However, studies have shown the brain has higher computational power efficiency than a digital machine. It can help to design better computers.
If we don’t know the exact amount of data storage of a human brain, it will be very hard to transfer it into a computer.
We need to first decode the information into a computer language so that it can be read and stored by a machine.
If an error comes during this process, it can be fatal. So copying the human brain into a machine is not simple as it appears to be.
When we extract our brain tissues of neurons and duplicate them with transistors, it will replace neurons with transistors.
It is like connecting our brains with wires and transistors in a machine.
Now comes the question: how do we clone the brain? scientist has no exact answer for this.
Because human brain cells are natural and are not immortal. So we need a technology that can photograph the memory and store it in a robotic mind.
If we can copy our memories and decode them into a machine language, it is possible to exist forever. But the question comes who will remain forever? our mind or awareness?
There is a big question. Because Artificial intelligence can recognize patterns and make new patterns as well.
It works on past information based on memory. If we give it a bundle of human memories in binary form, it can continually run that life that we live based on thoughts and impressions.
In simple words, our thought process will remain working and it will never die. Because it is a natural tendency that can be transferred from one generation to another generation.
For example, when a child takes birth, he carries the same natural tendency that his great great great grandfather used to think.
There can be some changes in thinking patterns, but the process of thinking will not die. Whenever we see something, it makes impressions and starts creating patterns in our mind.
And later it begets thoughts and thinking process starts. This tendency automatically forms whenever a habitable environment like the human body comes into existence.
In terms of programming, our mind is very similar to robots. Our overall actions are based on our thoughts which is just a piece of past information stored in our brain.
Whatever we make new things are a new combination of memories and patterns. We can’t create anything unique. Because it is the part of our mind.
It is exactly similar to a fully programmed machine that performs every task based on data stored in its memory. This is why some experts called it a matrix.
In humans and other living beings, there is something that is beyond thought and mind.
If we keep this phenomenon side and try to preserve the state of our mind, it is possible someday in the future to keep living as a thought process.
All we need to do is compromise our awareness. And we will live forever but without love.
When asked Elon musk, do you want to live forever? He said, “I definitely don’t look forever. I am not a huge proponent of longevity. I think that having a good life for longer is better.”
Some people believe that we will become immortal by the end of 2050. Because humans will be able to develop such artificial technology that can keep us alive forever.
But there is always a big line between reality and fantasy. Our current reality is, we have implemented AI in finance, health, science, Manufacturing, Cryptocurrency and transportation sectors only.
Integrating the human brain into a chip is a different thing. Because it is a completely distinct process of combining organic neurons into man-made technology.
In 2016, billionaire Elon musk founded neuro link to develop brain-computer interfaces.
Where a group of scientists and engineers are trying to connect human brain to computers that can decode neural signals.
It is said that humans will be able to upgrade their brains very soon, with machine intelligence through an implantable neural lace.
This technology will upgrade human abilities and gives a version of themselves.
According to the neuro link, humans will be able to control computers and mobile devices directly with their thoughts.
To construct a robotic human clone, researchers try to collect biometric data so that they translate it into computer language.
Companies like google, amazon, Facebook, and IBM are some big data-driven businesses. They use artificial intelligence to predict customer patterns and behaviors. So that they can sell the right products to the right people.
Here, the machine automatically recognizes the user’s behavior based on their previous activities.
In terms of ability to achieve something in the objective world, AI machines are very powerful than a human brain. They can calculate anything in no time.
They can respond faster and their decision-making ability is super phenomenal. because computer doesn’t make mistakes.
Longevity and immortality are completely different terms. If you ask someone, do you like to live longer? mostly answer would be “Yes, off course”.
But if you ask someone, do you want to become immortal? most people need to think about it. Because we don’t know the consequences of immortality.
Using transfusions of regenerative blood techniques and modern medicines, we can extend our age. But when it comes to eternity, we need a strong robotic body that can repair itself periodically.
Project 2045
A Russian billionaire, Dmitry Itskov initiated a project called “2045”. This project aims to make a biological technology that can transfer human’s personality into a biometric avatar.
It is claimed that extending life throughout this project will help reach the point of immortality.
Integration of science and tech has created luxurious life, full of magical gadgets and profound wealth.
It has proved that it is something that has the potential to turn impossible possible. Let’s hope for the best!
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