How do give others access to your "Mind"?
Hello everyone, so brain computer interface is a field that I believe will be the future (there's just soo many applications and so many people could use these products). My ultimate goal is to put the mind onto a computer (yes, the "mind" as a subjective construct based only from the electrical signals, which I myself define to be a 4D "place" in the set of all the possible states imaginable but has the potential to feel real and be experienced because the brain can feed itself with fake percepts such as imagined visual data, auditory data, etc). My thought process for this is that, yes, you can have an idea of what the person is "sensing", because you can sense what he senses from his "sensors" (eyes for visual data, ears for auditory data, etc) simply by being in the same environment, but you have no clue where his mind "is". Being in the same environment with a person, you have a bit of an idea of some inputs in his biological neural network, but this is only inputs from his five senses. You have no clue about a lot of other things, namely:
- Other inputs (not from the senses), such as previous memories which keeps on recurring and being passed as input over and over again or maybe worries of the future. All this depend on that person's experiences and biases.
- His hidden layers, you have no clue how those hidden layers are connected, say for example you know exactly all the inputs passed onto him, you will still have no clue what output he can produce out of that.
But again, assuming you know all this, how can you come up with what it feels like exactly for a person to be alive at that moment. How can you be transported to his mind (feel what he feels, see what he sees, hear what he hears, smell what he smells, taste what he tastes -> in his imagination) based only from electrical signals from his brain? with the ultimate goal of sharing it with others? (perhaps in the cloud?). Maybe this is the lazy way of socializing but I think words and non verbal languages are limited in the way that they can capture the mind (I think we've just become good at spotting and interpreting them) but I'm not talking about listening to someone else when they share, I'm talking about actually EXPERIENCING someone's mind as if you were that person. How would you do that?
Posted Feb 27, 2023, 3:27 PM UTC
Just so you are aware, you would need 2,000 exabytes of storage space for a single human brain. By comparison all of googles storage is 15 exabytes.
Say google did have 2,000 exabytes to sell you to store a single human brain, using current costs they would charge you 10 billion per month.
If your ultimate goal is to put a mind on a computer, you need to solve storage first.
I'm skeptical.
Here are a few links to get you started:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectome#Introduction
https://braininitiative.nih.gov/strategic-planning/brain-2025-reporthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAIN_Initiative
It's so much deeper than all of that.
"In 2016, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity of the United States government launched MICrONS, a five-year, multi-institute project to map one cubic millimeter of rodent visual cortex, as part of the BRAIN Initiative.[27][28] Though only a small volume of biological tissue, this project will yield one of the largest micro-scale connectomics datasets currently in existence."
The best we've gotten is one cubic millimeter of a mouse brain. That's the size of a grain of sand. So doing the math from that small amount of a mouse brain and multiplying taking into consideration the significantly higher amount of neurons and synapses in a human brain, you eventually get around 2,000 exabytes. Per brain