Mind Uploading, the Praise the Lord Aspect !

Every one of us know that there exists something called Artificial Intelligence (yes, the concept). To what extent it is true or to what extend the scientists achieved it? If that question is for me, my answer is : I don’t know !!

Though this area is not at all clear, Computer Science students have to study some basics. Since, as on today, it’s a ‘leading to nowhere’ and dry area, I did not even read a book I have with me on this topic (my wife’s text book when she was doing her engineering). But yes, I thought of it many a times, about the difficulties and challenges.

Though we might think of it as a computer related concept, is it just a computer stuff? Not at all.. Why? Why coz, look at SOME of the other areas linked to it :

Accounting, body language, speech recognition, facial recognition, psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, economics, data mining, operations research etc, etc and etc.. So, this can not be achieved by a person who is good at system programming with ALP, C or C++.

(If anybody thought Deep Blue, the super computer created by IBM had artificial intelligence, its wrong. We all know how that Chess match ended. If anybody forgot, let me remind it. There were 6 matches between Deep blue and then world champion Kasparov. Three matches became draw, computer won two and Kasparov won one. But Kasparov wasn’t convinced and he believed that he got cheated and hence he asked for rematch which IBM did not agree. Kasparov had defeated the previous version of Deep Blue).

Since the idea scientists want to implement is intelligence, its all related to our brain, in the first place. So, how does our brain handle this? Is it only the brain work? Or it has something to do with mind too?

We have studied in schools about neurons. Our brains contain more than 100 billion such nerve cells. These neurons are connected to each other using axons and dendrites. One connected to another and that one connected to another and thus it’s a very big network. And now scientists believe/understand that intelligence is not something connected only with brain but it involves mind too.

We all know the basic components of a computer. It has hardware and software. Many a times, I used to think of what these modern scientists are trying to achieve. Its very much similar to trying to copycat God’s work. Or trying to find out how God did this or that, though scientist’s view on this is different. Here too it is the same case. Some section of the scientific community compares this brain-mind connection as hardware and software. If brain is the hardware, the mind is the operating system.

This is where mind uploading fits into. Here what they want to achieve is transferring the software to another artificially created hardware. That is, transferring the mind into an artificially created environment which has high processing abilities, may be a super duper computer.

Now we know why its not that easy. Not just that, how wonderfully God has achieved all these….its simply amazing, fantastic and what not? So?

Praise the Lord !