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
3 The Naked Scientist, http://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/index.php?topic=44708.0
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
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