has been programmed. and true religion. science. and even economic conditions because you know your experience of the world is not that starving kids. so. that the experience is the condition money and these projections and that conditioning. that goes back to the first and that humans being so good to communicate their experiences and conditioning is infinite possibilities infinite consciousness and that's where you are you are an infinite consciousness having a fight ninety six feet. you. want to see the tree it looks like the tree between the. products if you please just. like you. would think we. would three.

weeks out. of the dawn of the twenty first century we might know more about the universe than previous generations but to quote on the rumsfeld in one of his more lucid moments there are known unknowns but there are also unknown and the ones we don't know we don't know if quantum theory is leading us toward ideas about multiverse ism dimensions affecting our reality beyond the four there may be no limits to our multi-dimensional consciousness will take us. but there are others who would argue the rules of the universe can be completely know starting with the brain. in twenty fourteen you might have caught that film transcendence which popularized the idea held by futurists like ray kurzweil that one day humans will be able to upload their brains to a computer chip. their idea. their memory. their identity.

at the two hundred million or so year history of our brains through mammalian history we see there's a flaw in the design and the fundamental flaw of the brain it has no back up the most precious information that we have is not backed up to this computer system we have is something we can back. out one of the goals of the national academy of engineering in the twenty first century is to reverse engineer the brain and that means in effect to back it up and you get it once a strategy to not just boost intelligence but to extend life in the same way that when your old computer starts to run out your backup files the software and

translated to a new computer but your belief that fun is fundamentally believe that we will basically be able to download my awareness my being you know this i am this sean stone experience of thirty three years be able to download that awareness into a computer so that i could tell potentially live forever as sort of like a computer or some kind of robot let's say or something to that effect i think for a lot of us it's hard to imagine living in a computer and my answer that is where you're living in right now it's just made of . the mind as best we can tell is a kind of music a kind of pattern played by the brain played by me but it's a very crude instrument so by improving the instrument we can still play the same music and tune those patterns that den of five now they're all twenty patterns in a big bitstream bunch of ones and zeros but they're still patterns so yes we could play them on different instruments play them faster augment them and in that sense your whole being there. consciousness is just a seed

a c that will grow and expand in ways we really can't foresee when we start to approximate with which to put it differently the old saying is that biology is just nothing could be further from the truth biology was just nature's first quick and dirty way to compute with meat ships or destiny you say that the brain itself as individual qualities and patterns that are not safe replicable like you can't just replicate all the nature of the brain because the cells themselves have have sort of quantum dynamics going on it's something that's you know it's very difficult to sort of predict and model especially from moment to moment there is this notion of well there is a notion of choice there's no experience so you can see that in actual. clones right now you can go on a human being but if i clone sean or bob i are going to be saying no we're going to look the same same in genomics the behavior you know because our

behavior is piled up based on our experiences and those experiences i'm not that he's aware of that can be transferred to the memory. of our entire sounds. to be able to actually been i clone you you become a baby becoming really second you if human experience alters the brain and leaves imprints in the d.n.a. that can be passed on genetically so we cannot even begin to speculate how consciousness will shift as we merge human genes and how will that feel. it would be truly trans human right now again we're thinking with brains with neural systems that process about two hundred miles per hour the electrical signals but if you're in a chip the time would speed up millionfold billion for. so

a few seconds of our current meet time would be for example many years so you can live a very long time and still find that inside that ship until you ran out of power and we could go quite a ways on that the possibility of replicating the human brain can go a long way for the creation of artificial intelligence which stephen hawking believed evolution implies there can be no call to the difference between the brain of an earthworm and that of a human it therefore follows that computers can in principle emulate human intelligence created something terrible artificial intelligence stephen hawking wrote about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence relaying that yes ai has potential to eradicate disease and poverty but. must go along with ai experts signed an open letter in two thousand and fifteen calling for serious research into its impact on society it's a real concern because computers are powerful their own right the future

supercomputers question is a train could be far more powerful we just don't know what that will look like we have only one good example of intelligence a sample size of one and sauce and what we're talking about achieving just when we back up boost and extend the brain is a kind of super intelligence and it's very hard to make inferences so there is a big scary downside just in terms of the problems we currently have on the fundamental problems we have right now is computer systems it's lack of good security but as we move to the internet of things as almost everything in your house has a computer tie and for mark wave of and for the lights all those are potential sources of hacking just as is any kind of backup of the brain and the assault again is it's much easier to attack and defend and the information age stanley kubrick's two thousand and one the space odyssey featured an artificial intelligence named how nine. how it was in charge of the space ship.

ultimately murdered the crew which epitomizes the fear. as voiced by stephen hawking the concern is that it would take off on its own and redesign itself in an ever increasing rate humans are limited by slow biological evolution couldn't compete and would be superseded. and in the future ai could develop a will of its own will that is in conflict with us for such reason the creation of artificial intelligence has often been equated with the invention of the atomic bomb. is not exactly correct it's. going to explode and made a mushroom cloud it's more like if there were just a few people that had it they would be able to. protect or wherever acquired it and if it was limited to people there and it was ultra smart

they would have to man you know. but we're at a moment now we're just still be in storytelling and the fear of things like artificial intelligence has become so pervasive that it's actually going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy and the thing that i think that's most important is to not think of these kind of transhumanist ideas as outside of being human they're coming from us artificial intelligence is an artificial it's actually an augmentation it's augment of intelligence or even extended intelligence from us as humans so to think of it as something separate that's scary an alien is actually the very thing that will make it so the idea that it's a i that's programming a that's programming it to me as an excuse it's an excuse to say oh we're not responsible anymore screw that we are responsible so we're going to create the simulated world that we live in. we have since the industrial revolution there's

been amazing things about that it's actually a better time on planet earth than it's ever been before and so many levels in terms of violence and war and all these things people think it's such a horrible time it's actually not in terms of you look at the actual statistics so we have evolved in a positive direction through our technology this next level this next step is like the steps of the star child at the end of two thousand one space odyssey that ending of the starchild is one of the most hopeful spiritual endings in the history of storytelling and it's very ephemeral various means many things to many different people but the idea that humans come back and look at our planet from a more holistic view from the childlike wonder of the starchild as the next evolution that's incredibly hopeful thing.

join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guest on the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten dollars timestamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers. it will. the only number you need to remember is what one does the show

you know for two minutes one can only. nobody could see coming that false confessions would be in this population a problem for. ted any interrogation out there what you'll see is promise threat promise threat lie a lie a lie the process of interrogation is designed to put people in just that frame of mind make them on comfortable make them want to get out and don't take no for an answer don't accept their denials she said therefore would. say i stayed there i would be home by that time the next day there's a culture on accountability and police officers know that they can engage in misconduct that has nothing to do with.

stephen hawking argued knowing the mind of god is the laws of nature my prediction is that we will know the mind of god by the end of this century. but first we should perhaps recall the ancient history school dictum to no dice. for who truly knows his own mind his own body let alone the universe with each affecting each other more deeply than we recognize. if people are watching us and they're listening to. what humans would cause. is being activated. and what you would see. is neurochemical. that neurochemical. of course. really of consciousness. another would need to experience

there's no experience that is not recorded in the brain or what we call the brain by the way the experience that's not recorded anywhere in the body the body is the written is recording the experience with the brain the sending messages to the body so that memory right cells cells are everybody great interactivity so as long as you have them into production of the universe where you actually believe that green . button and. mind and body and the. shifting perceptual experiences intimate and stream of sensations images feelings thoughts all these are human systems of thought trying to interpret experience which is nothing then consciousness modifying

experience so there is only consciousness it's infinite most people think that consciousness emerges from the brain acting as a computer with each neuron in the brain and synaptic synapse acting is fundamental switches and bits and that if you get sufficiently complex computation among these simple neurons and interconnections then consciousness will emerge at a critical level of complexity i think of the brain more like an orchestra than a computer and you have opera oscillations and vibrations and resonances that these different frequencies like in a piece of music you have high frequency and low frequencies and beats and interference patterns and so forth and the e.g. would be the slow beats where as we have very fast vibrations up into the terahertz and perhaps even faster in that we can't detect it yet and i get a lot of flack about that from people but what i say in response. until you can

explain consciousness in the brain you cannot exclude the possibility of consciousness outside the brain what is it about the near death experience or consciousness after death post-mortem consciousness that you believe in the kates consciousness does not actually originate in the brain and brain activity it's impossible that conscience should be probably reduce programming is because we didn't respect the study found out of eighteen percent don't know spacious memories from the period of unconsciousness they were trying to call depth which means there is no secret mission no reading there unconscious and undone very moment the admin and hands consciousness you. are going to school she's in the possibility of perception memory scrutiny shouldn't emotions etc so you can corroborate it by asking this discern should the cardiologist the nurses and the family member us. about what's happened and about the moment it happened do you

have any theory about what the actual nature of the brain is that if the brain functions as a sort of a receiver of consciousness or what role it really plays in relationship to consciousness bed that's a good an important question being asked um i was silence as well well in my idea and so it's only by idiots on sentry go wielding joe james asenath mr bell that you have a brain as a filter i'm sure aren't transceiver and that's metrics to understand that i grew months to compare it with a group like the communication at this very moment culturally you are you are now around here there are hundreds of hours of telephone calls calls go into us through walls and such a big you meet need an instrument called the focal is not produced by your mobile phone this comes back to this question about you talk about them the mind being a sort of symphony or musical waves and getting into the quantum nature of our reality right which is yes that. unlevel people have predictable patterns and there

are things that you know from a biochemical perspective can be predicted but there is also this notion of our ability to be wrong our ability to be counterintuitive right to go against our own systems of logic and rational behavior which gives us what we consider you know the human expression right and creativity exactly so do you feel that if we increasingly merge with machinery we actually may be diluting the the potential for creativity seventeen you say because it comes to really becomes programatic i think this will enhance creativity i think shifting from meats to computers only amplifies the properties of the currently have good and bad including the creative leaps and if you can think about something like music you have to ask yourself a brain that's backed up on a chip that would be the equivalent of a fifty pound brain today what kind of musical patterns would it come up with other

words what what what it's seeing in the shower we mabel to recognize or appreciate if you look for example at classical music the works of johann sebastian bach and see a lot of work ulf youths which have three or four independent voices and that's about as much as we can handle from the brain and listening to it but what kind of fugue would you get from a twenty pound brain there might be fifteen twenty voices working at parallel that she have some overall global musical pattern quite immense beauty but we can't even begin to imagine what that would be like so i think creativity will benefit it can be argued that creativity is already benefited from technological innovations that allow millions of hours of content to stream to the individual making our consciousness increasingly trends dimensional but all these virtual worlds invite the question is this reality simply good computer generated simulation. elon musk has answered there's only a law. billions chances are that it is not from what we know about the real world

all of this is a bunch of physical energy use and we have transducers years to moves that take physical stimuli and translated into a perception and some people made the case will virtual reality of the real world there's not much difference it's the brain processing stimuli in creating perception everything about this reality is a simulation from the standpoint that our brain is taking sensory signals interpret in them and there's actually a almost one second delay in how we are perceived so there actually is no actual now now now it actually is something we're proceeding with what is in technology called the transport latency of almost a second that means it's a simulation from the standpoint of perception and if you look at what's happened in you know quantum mechanical theory and the way in which particle physics has

sort of an address these issues of the perspective of the experimenter being more important than almost any other aspect of the experiment now you're really having almost a pure call. substantiation of this idea of simulation theory at the particle so when you've got that reaching towards us from the other side from both sides i think you've really got to really think there's something very plastic or fluid is a better word about the perception of reality and i think that even cinema for me as you know cinema is one of my one of my religion's cinema is just a reflection to us of you know the emotional states of being human in this artificial in this artifice why does it work that we can go cut cut cut cut and then we think of that as reality because the brain creates that into a simulation that gives us the entire emotional experience of what the filmmaker or what that cinematic expression is trying to create that's why i talk about virtual . ality in such intense terms in terms of

a an ethical framework around this medium because the merchants of virtual experience what i call v.x. and transhumanist modification that really is becoming what the perception of being a human will be all about we won't we'll have generations that aren't thinking of being a human in the same way as someone who grew up on a farm in iowa who was able to walk from one farm to the other and that was their daily understanding of life this is going to be going to the human imagination is going to be able to range free and the fact of that i think is a tremendously positive thing because we can absolutely evolve the human imagination that's always where our greatest levels of expression come from but if we control the human imagination with the smell of things that's where we get into you know. in one of his most dire warnings to us the optimist stephen hawking says

a world where only a tiny super elite are capable of understanding advanced science and technology in its applications would be to my mind a dangerous and limited one. i seriously doubt whether long range beneficial projects such as cleaning up the oceans or curing diseases in the developing world would be given priority worse we could find that technology is used against us and that we might have no power to stop it. there is a threat to the human race in misuse of these. awesome powers. and so to deal with that we have to become more conscious in our own doubt in the of choosing it under democracy so yes it's dangerous and that means we have to become more conscious on the positive side of it i've always thought that earth has given birth to a universal humanity i've always thought that as we heal the earth and free

ourselves here from hunger disease and more we're going to discover that we can go beyond the planet. it is necessary if we are to fulfill the destiny of evolution within us to have the power of the artificial intelligence nanotech biotech quantum computing and all of. requiring us to have a deeper spirituality requiring us to what i feel about conscious evolution is the impulse of evolution going to get greater consciousness freedom and love for billions of years same as purpose is to expand his ability to love her ability to love what does that mean quantifiable way of assessing and our ability to love i mean how because i was in love is a very cultivated experience a very personal thing so is there any way to quantify that. expression of expanding

love the way nature takes comes from does order to higher order is through connecting separate parts to make a new whole greater than the sum of the parts. so as a system gets dysfunctional all these innovations in different fields arise and just take it right here on planet earth we have innovations in health education economic cetera at some point there is a tendency in nature for everything that rises to converge and i. and assuming that convergence what emergent is possible can be facilitated and has that happens that culture of homo. doing this is so much greater than the sum of our part that we will know

how to heal the earth free the people and explore the universe in the words of stephen hawking this is not the end of the story but just the beginning of what i hope will be billions of years of life flourishing in the cosmos truly there is no limit to consciousness nor the potentials of human creativity. so to answer the question who creates reality we do by our choices our perceptions you know we change our brains in our d.n.a. . but the universe around. us one final question what do you think is our purpose then in terms of if we are really this consciousness is closely playing tricks on itself central our purpose i think is to give meaning to existence and once we give meaning to existence and once we agree and it becomes. and till such time that somebody comes along and says you know that meaning was not quite accurate. this is a bigger me and it goes on because consciousness is infinite we never get to the

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