Mind and Body

The topic chosen was from the Mind Unit, and though there were several topics to choose from, the most interesting topic that I found of interest was in regards to computers. The question, “Could we ever 'download' you into a computer or make an exact digital duplicate of you,” is the topic that I have decided to write about, and I will attempt to prove that the capability of this is implausible. Arguments that I will use to prove my point will include six parts to support my claim are as followed. Starting with, the amount of up time, the life span of storage, the energy required, processing, the idea of who stay’s and who goes, and finally the future of the technology that could be.

The theory of the transferring the mind to computers for the soul purpose of being immortal has been an exciting and ever striving idea of many who claim that it can be achieved. The theory of transferring the brain to a computer becoming a reality has a few problems. The first is the amount of uptime that a computer can operate and stay on line, one example is that what happens when a network seizes, similar to the all famous Twitter Company. Twitter has had several cases when the server seizes, and it begs the question of what happens to our state of mind when the server housing our brain gets backed up. Will having seizers, be similar to us having a simple hangover, or the extent of a person dying, not something a normal person would like to find out the hard way.

The second problem is the amount of storage that is required to house our minds. Mass storage units that run constantly need to have physical backups, defragments, memory clean ups otherwise the data on the storage medias could be unreadable, or corrupted. Another problem is that even in larger server rooms, someone must physically replace the hard drives after they have been copied over to a new hard drive.

Third is the massive amount of energy that is required to keep a server with all of our...