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RE: Achieving Immortality By Uploading Our Brains/Personality To Robots: The 2045 Initiative
Unfortunately this seems to be the fantasy of a megalomaniac and nothing more. We know little or nothing about the brain and less about consciousness (touched these topics in some of my older posts). An individual (even if billionaire) can't achieve this goal in that time.
Better concentrate on real science, which will lead to that result thanks to hard work, not imagination or good will :-)
We are far, but not as far as our brains are wired to think. Technological development is exponential, whereas our brains are wired to think linearly. Think back 10 years ago; how much has changed since? Think forward 10 years from now, and realize that upcoming technological development will be, if Moore's law holds up, at least 4 times that amount. 2045 also happens to roughly coincide with what Transhumanists call "the Singularity"--that is, the moment in which one computer will surpass the computational power of all of humanity's brains together. So I think it is very achievable within that timeframe, if we aren't destroyed by AI by then, that is.
Yes, we are still far from achieving this concept. But still, he has many scientists on his side, it's not just a vision alone.
We are close to the first goal of Avatar A so I'm interested to see if they'll even be able to achieve that, and how their project will develop in the future!