Thought Simulation

[Cuck Norris]

Let's assume humanity developed the technology to download the human brain, including an individuals perceptions, prejudices, and cognitive impairments. The program lacks "consciousness" but it's possible to run scenarios through it to see how that person would have interpreted and reacted to it.

Whose brain would you download and what scenario would you run?

 

[Lurkman]

My own just to see what the fuck I'm thinking half the time.

 

[Todesfurcht]

Same as Lurkman.
I'd download my brain and explore it, my conscious is very quiet.

 

[Vitriol]

It would be fascinating to compare before and after of stroke survivors.

 

[Lurkman]

Same as Lurkman.
I'd download my brain and explore it, my conscious is very quiet.

oh no, i just mean I wanna figure out where all of my strange and weird as shit thoughts come from. my conscious is very loud.

 

[grumbleBum]

I would download Alan Turing's brain, I'd like to see what he'd make of the current state of AI. Lots of fun stuff happening in AI now, which I think he'd enjoy. After a bit of a pep talk about how being super gay and grossly indecent is no biggie any more, of course.

 

[Lackadaisy]

My brain would just be represented by the poop emoji

 

[Conrix]

I would download every lolcow ever and use the data to build an ultimate lolcow AI.

 

[Yawning Bulbasaur]

My oneitis' brain to see if she really likes me back at all

 

[John Furrman]

I'd do what they did in the Black Mirror episode White Christmas, I'd work for law enforcement that creates "living" copies of people's brains and then torture the digital copies to get confessions.

 

[Tragi-Chan]

I think I'd also like to try running scenarios through my own brain. Like, how would I react in the face of, say, a major disaster - I know how I think I'd react, but it would be interesting to see how right or wrong I am.

Apart from that, I think I'd like to try running people who are basically monsters. Serial killers, tyrants, cult leaders and the like. Just to see what goes through their minds that makes them different from the rest of us. Could we, say, learn anything positive from Stalin's thought process, or Charles Manson's?

Spoiler: And my favourite film will become a reality.

 

[DNJACK]

if it's anything like a decent model of someone's brain it WILL be conscious.

 

[Sperglord Dante]

I'm really curious about how Julius Ceasar, Ghengis Khan or any other famous conqueror would react to a world where owning land is a only a small part of the larger economical and geopolitical dynamics of power.

 

[WW 635]

if it's anything like a decent model of someone's brain it WILL be conscious.

True dat. Otherwise you wouldn't need to upload a person's thought patterns. You could just use behavioural patterns and statistical probability to determine the most likely course of action for a given individual. That would really be much easier.

 

[DNJACK]

but then you wouldn't know what they think. To generate a thought as someone would have think it in a situation, the model HAS to be able to think. Ergo, it must be conscious.

 

[WW 635]

but then you wouldn't know what they think. To generate a thought as someone would have think it in a situation, the model HAS to be able to think. Ergo, it must be conscious.

It doesn't need to be conscious unless you are attempting to decipher the thought process behind the actions. Even if the model would include "consciousness" it would still be impossible to determine thought process considering subjectivity. Best case scenario the model could simulate behaviour and/or patterns of neural hemodynamic response.

 

[WW 635]

 

[DNJACK]

It doesn't need to be conscious unless you are attempting to decipher the thought process behind the actions.

ANd thats what this thread is about. Not predicting actions.

The biological process doesnt have to be simulated in detail: an alternative working design could be use if it works close enough to the real thing.

 

[WW 635]

ANd thats what this thread is about. Not predicting actions.

The biological process doesnt have to be simulated in detail: an alternative working design could be use if it works close enough to the real thing.

I thought this was about seeing how the individual whose brain was uploaded would react to different situations behaviourally. OP isn't being clear enough in his directions and is probably attempting to sabotage our very healthy marriage by causing us to argue like autistic nerds.

@Cuck Norris I demand you clarify and explain yourself.

 

[Sanshain]

Sounds like an idea that's just slightly more than one comet away from SOMA, honestly.