Can Your
Persona Be Virtualised?
By Katrina Day
19 April 2015
The recent
technological advancement in robotics has proved that the science fiction idea of
human being virtualised is actually possible. You can become a virtual copy of
yourself with your memory stored elsewhere, whilst artificial intelligence
overtakes your mind and your outward expression. The article published by
Russia Today stating that google has secured a patent for a robot that mimics
the owner:
“Imagine a
robot-pal who could mimic its owner, a “deceased loved one,” or even a
“celebrity.” This sci-fi concept may soon be reality after Google was awarded a
US patent to develop downloadable personalities for robots.”
Yes, indeed,
our google is going to get a robot that mimics your personal gestures,
behaviour, tone of voice, etc. Not to forget that this is the search engine with
vast amount of information that human cultures have accumulated throughout
centuries. The search engine that gives us answers to our queries on just about
anything and also stores our questions; and it knows what we are interested
in. This is the search engine acquiring
combat robots amongst other things and disseminating information in more ways
than one.
This robot will
also be able to express various moods in the manner that you normally express
and it won’t stop there. It will carry on functioning after we have passed away
and it will develop by accessing more of your personal information:
“A robot
may access a user device to determine or identify information about a user, and
the robot may be configured to tailor a personality for interaction with the
user based on the identified information,” the patent detailed. In building its own
personality, the robot could “further
receive data associated with the user” through speech and facial
recognition.”
This
patent also allows for Cloud based information sharing. Of course, it is not the robot that is as
important outwardly but the micro-chip that will achieve such a state. One can
now imagine the Royal heads, celebrities, heads of state lining up to get their
lookalikes to insert this micro-chip as this will make them indistinguishable
from the original person. This puts the job of a lookalike in a totally
different category, a risky one, we may presume, as they will be pressurised to
accept this micro-chip for the vast amounts of remuneration offered.
The question we
might ask is where would our real personality be whilst this Artificial Intelligence
micro-chip is taking over our precious behavioural patterns and such,
displaying this to our nearest and dearest exactly the same way as they are
accustomed to?
Another
research on phys.org is an eye opener on that. The article published by the
name: “Nanoscale Light trapping mirrored cavities amplify connect quantum
memories” states that the tiny particles, photons, can be controlled with nano
technology and microwave manipulation. This discovery has great variety of
applications and whilst this is focusing on “trapping the light around the impurities
in atoms in diamond crystals”, as well as nanoscale manipulations of light, there
is more yet to come. By using this technology, they are also focusing on
connecting distant quantum memories and they can also use fibre optic cables to
transfer the information.
The
article states that:
“It is already possible to transfer
information about the electron spin state via photons, but we have to make the
interface between the photons and electrons more efficient.”
They
can also extend the storage time of the quantum memories. The question is does
this extend to human memories as well? The article simply states that these are
the quantum memories in solids “that are couple with photons.”
So why
photons? There are some other research documents that give us answers to that
showing the significance of this discovery. As we know, photons carry the tiny
particles of colour, particles of light.
However, it is possible to collect these and make up a full picture. The
answers in physics about photons The Naked Scientist states that:
“The only information that an
individual photon carries is its frequency (colour) and the direction from
which it has come. It requires a great many individual photons to create
an image which includes photons coming from a range of angles with different
frequencies and sufficient numbers to create a range of intensities per picture
element"
In
other words, the full image can be reconstructed if there was a sufficient
manipulation of photons and with the nanoscale laser this may be quite
possible. Further answers by the Naked
Scientist state that photons carry the information about any image, the
surrounding environment, human face, etc: It is very hard to create the full
image however, now, with the scale of the discovery stated on phys.org is quite
visible.
The
importance of photons becomes apparent when we look at the articles related to
the nature of human consciousness and
memories. Apparently, we store our memories as holographic images and the
transfer of these can be facilitated by using precisely, this photon trapping
and manipulation technology.
The
Quantum Hologram And the Nature of Consciousness in the Journal of Cosmology
states that:
“Like all holographic
processing, the associative pattern that is created facilitates retrieval of
information in a resonant loop utilizing the overlapping reference signals of
quantum emissions from the external object. It enables the perceiving
organism’s brain structures to perform pattern classification and recognition
of the resonating signals. This resonance process is called phase conjugate
adaptive resonance (PCAR).”
The talk is about the retrieval of
these images from the brain. The memory manipulation can be of various nature.
It has already been known that memory can be taken over by another organism,
such as a virus, which can act as a memory eraser. The same article deals with
this aspect presenting the research regarding the effect some viruses have on
memory functions.
So it is possible to either take over
the host like the viruses do, erase the memory. Going back to the photon
manipulation, the word manipulation via microwave also implies editing, thus if
you can create a full image, why not edit it as well. If you can transfer the
holographic image as this is the way we store our memories, it could be quite
possible to insert the false holographic memory as well. It is noteworthy, to
see how the viral route of handling and taking over memory can develop:
“Unlike most organisms, viruses are
not made of complete cells. They reproduce by invading and taking over the
machinery of their target host cell. When a virus comes into contact with a
potential host, it inserts itself into the genetic material of the host’s cell.
The infected cell is then instructed to produce more viral protein and genetic
material instead of performing its normal functions. Is that purposeful
behavior or intentionality by the invading virus? (Journal of Cosmology)”
The other agents to erase the memory
have been quite well known for some time. Anesthesia is one of them. The way it
can erase memory is quite well documented and known to scientists. So, we are
talking about a chemical agent that can induce the same effect. Whilst some
memories can be recovered by the patient, stated by the same article, the
initial damage to the brain by this chemical agent is quite clear. However, with deeper knowledge of the
workings of human brain and recent discoveries, this knowledge has acquired
further detail. It appears that the way some anestesia operates in the brain is
similar to the vibrations in the neurons. In other words, if the right the
brain neurons were subjected to the right frequency and vibrations one would
get the same effect as the anesthesia has on the memory and vice versa. So this
proves that the workings of the chemical agent are the same as far as the
mechanics of the processes are concerned. This is documented by another article
in phys.org “Discovery of quantum vibrations in 'microtubules'” This corroborates
theory of consciousness states that:
“G. Eckenhoff, MD, at the University of Pennsylvania, suggests
that anesthesia, which selectively erases consciousness while sparing non-conscious brain activities, acts via
microtubules in brain neurons.”
Thus, it is possible to erase the
memory and the workings of this process is precisely, made clear by studying
the microtubules and the vibrations of the neurons in the brain. This very same
article also talks about creating ‘benevolent’ moods in the microtubules of the
subject. That means get the subject to ‘like’ something directly induced in the
brain via certain frequencies and vibrations. We have now seen from the above
articles that whilst memory can be manipulated in many ways, what is most
important for the micro-chip that mimics the owner is to use this memories to
its advantage to establish the similarity between the imposter and the original
and deceive the onlookers. This could be one of the obvious applications of
this AI chip. Whilst this device is using the memory of the original owner, the
actual memory can be manipulated in many ways and as earlier we talked about
the memory retrieval from the brain, it must be clear that if memory can be
retrieved, it could potentially be uploaded as well to a ‘safe’ device, such as
the Cloud. Let’s not kid about it. If there is a micro-chip or a quantum
technology that uploads such large data, it would work the opposite way as well.
In other words, what’s unloadable is also downloadable. Thus, this memory or
any other information including unsolicited, could be downloaded into the
subject’s micro-chip. This could be someone’ else’s memories or advertising
material of any kind. Politicians could conduct their election propaganda
directly into our brains together with the adverts of household cleaning agents
and they would also create the ‘likeable’ mood in our brain for the subject to
welcome this. This opens the door to wide range of ethical questions. This
devastates any thought, trust or belief some people might have in democracy.
This casts a severe blow to the idea that people should be allowed to perceive
the reality on their own terms and make up their own mind. In other words, an
individual should use external environment and create his/her opinion without
this type of intrusion directly into his/her sensory and processing equipment,
such as brain, mood creation via the microtubule vibrations and such.
So now we can see the true extent of
all the above discoveries, research and their applications. This should go
against the core of what most people in a democratic state should stand for.
Yet, this kind of idea that memories will be uploaded and shared is propagated
widely by the media, rather frivolously as if this was a true technological
advancement. No wonder that the Daily Mail suggests that according to Ray
Kurzweil the uploading of human mind will be possible.
“According
to the Daily Mail article : We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by
2045 and our bodies will be replaced by
machines within 90 years, Google expert claims:
““Ray Kurzweil, director of engineering at Google, believes we
will be able to upload our entire brains to computers within the next 32 years
- an event known as singularity””
Whether it will be the uploading of the
full human consciousness holographically, or the setting of the virus to act to
overtake its operations in conjunction with this as well as erasing the
memories, the prospect is extremely daunting as we are looking at arresting
one’s own human mind and disabling its operations whilst the robotic
intelligence that mimics the host will take over its outward functions. This
effectively, means the total obliteration of one as an individual.
Katrina Day
BSc MA Cert Ed,
is an author and campaigner against
micro-chipping humans and digital tattoos, striving to get the law passed in
British Parliament where micro-chipping minors under any reason, medical or any
other, will be criminalised. Adults can only be micro-chipped or digitally
tattooed if they give their informed consent.
References and
Bibliography:
1 Google secures patent for robots with customizable personalities
Published time: April 02, 2015 17:30
2 Nanoscale Light trapping mirrored cavities amplify connect quantum
memories
Jan 28, 2015
4 The Quantum Hologram And the Nature of Consciousness
Edgar D. Mitchell, Sc.D.1, and Robert Staretz, M.S.
1Apollo Astronaut, 6th Man to Walk on the Moon, Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14.
JournalofCosmology.com, 2011
1Apollo Astronaut, 6th Man to Walk on the Moon, Journal of Cosmology, 2011, Vol. 14.
JournalofCosmology.com, 2011
5 Discovery of quantum vibrations in 'microtubules' corroborates
theory of consciousness, Jan 16, 2014, http://phys.org/news/2014-01-discovery-quantum-vibrations-microtubules-corroborates.html
6 We'll be uploading our entire MINDS to computers by 2045 and our
bodies will be replaced by machines within 90 years, Google expert claims, Victoria Woollaston,
Published: 15:22, 19 June 2013 | Updated: 15:22, 19 June 2013
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344398/Google-futurist-claims-uploading-entire-MINDS-computers-2045-bodies-replaced-machines-90-years.html
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