Transfer human consciousness to a computer, prolong human life

Our ability to set goals will have to be transferred as well. Technologies like NeuralLink allow retrieval of information by mere thought so it stands to reason that consciousness in a computer will know virtually anything known to humanity. Even today, technology uncovers all our flaws with great efficiency. Spell checkers have gotten really good at this for example. What if we developed a spell checker for human goal setting processes? Undoubtedly, we would uncover how flawed our thinking is. To some people the fact they are not as good at something as they thought might be crushing. Humans have an ability to learn and adopt. However, when our mind is in the machine, the resources for learning are limited. The rich would have access to more powerful machines and will be able to continue learning and changing their behaviors but the poor might not. Many people would fight for a chance to continue living in the machine. We would then, have to provide equal access to this technology. When you try to load billions of people in the Matrix, there is not a lot of resources left to enable learning processes or running complex simulations that provide the type of sensory input we are used to. The machine starts to look more like a prison than a happy place of retirement. You can't enjoy the nice things you want and you can't learn not to get upset about it so you are stuck in an eternal loop of frustration. Unless of course you are so used to not need much and be not much in life that it does not bother you.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.