Am I correct in understanding that you are suggesting that the human brain will deteriorate even without aging, since it is simply not designed to last for hundreds of years?
I know little about the limits of the brain over centuries or millennia, where exactly it will fail, and how this can be repaired. If you (or others) have a good resource with similar arguments, please let me know about it.
Of course, the easiest thing would be to recreate the brain — organic or silicon — with all its memories. But perhaps the problem of identity is even more complex than the problem of preserving the brain over centuries? I’m not sure.
Maintaining perfect biological health (including for the brain) is a more objective target than maintaining an abstract person implemented by the brain, there is more philosophical difficulty in defining what success means. A healthy brain in a million years might just effectively end up containing someone else, in a way that its original inhabitant wouldn’t endorse on reflection. And there might be insufficient time for that reflection to occur in a single lifetime while the original person is still there and didn’t yet become someone else. AGI-written textbooks on the topic might help, but avoiding undue influence via such textbooks is similarly harder to define than autonomy in thinking on your own.
Am I correct in understanding that you are suggesting that the human brain will deteriorate even without aging, since it is simply not designed to last for hundreds of years?
I know little about the limits of the brain over centuries or millennia, where exactly it will fail, and how this can be repaired. If you (or others) have a good resource with similar arguments, please let me know about it.
Of course, the easiest thing would be to recreate the brain — organic or silicon — with all its memories. But perhaps the problem of identity is even more complex than the problem of preserving the brain over centuries? I’m not sure.
Maintaining perfect biological health (including for the brain) is a more objective target than maintaining an abstract person implemented by the brain, there is more philosophical difficulty in defining what success means. A healthy brain in a million years might just effectively end up containing someone else, in a way that its original inhabitant wouldn’t endorse on reflection. And there might be insufficient time for that reflection to occur in a single lifetime while the original person is still there and didn’t yet become someone else. AGI-written textbooks on the topic might help, but avoiding undue influence via such textbooks is similarly harder to define than autonomy in thinking on your own.