Synthetic Super Intelligence and the Transmutation of Humankind

Chapter 14: Becoming Gods
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hus begins an article on the We Shape Life website.
Scientists can now also turn on and off certain regions of the
brain. 387 This is done so that a person can concentrate on a specific
task that the research scientists want them to focus on. However, what does
this mean? It means, of course, that anybody who is in control of the human
brain and the SBC in the future can turn off and on certain regions of the
brain as they wish, just as easy as turning on and off a light-switch! It
doesn’t take a rocket scientist to understand that this is a very sophisticated
way of applying mind control on an entire population at once, if desired.
Nonetheless, Michio Kaku and other AI gurus, advise us to be optimists,
not pessimists; “it’s the optimist that creates our future.” I think I’ll jump
into one of the “parallel universes” that he writes about instead, so long as
he is not there.
This is the way the AI-agenda scientists plan to create the SBC; they
will scan each individual’s entire brain to save the personality, skills, and
history of each person and upload it to the SBC; similar to how it’s done in
the computer world. 388 Two major reasons why they put nanobots in
chemtrails and medicine are 1) to have as many people implanted with
nanotechnology as possible, instead of doing it on a one-to-one basis, and 2)
these nanobots will come in handy when it’s time to upload people’s brains
to the SBC.
Kurzweil writes,
To capture this level of detail will require scanning from within the brain
using nanobots, the technology for which will be available by the late 2020s.
Thus, the early 2030s is a reasonable time frame for the computational
performance, memory, and brain-scanning prerequisites of uploading. Like
any other technology, it will take some iterative refinement to perfect this
capability, so the end of the 2030s is a conservative projection for successful
uploading.
We should point out that a person's personality and skills do not reside only
in the brain, although that is their principal location. Our nervous system
extends throughout the body, and the endocrine (hormonal) system has an
influence, as well. The vast majority of the complexity, however, resides in
the brain, which is the location of the bulk of the nervous system. The
bandwidth of information from the endocrine system is quite low, because
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YouTube, “Scientists discover how to 'upload knowledge to your brain'”
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Kurzweil, “The Singularity is Near,” Chapter 4.
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