Currently, digital resurrection relies on artifacts such as photographs of a person, their correspondence, or voice recordings. But in the future, when whole brain emulation becomes possible, we will have a far more comprehensive source of information about a deceased person than ever before.
Based on the theory of mind, each of us has a “simulation” of important people in our brains. We will be able to extract these simulations from the WBEs of various people who knew the deceased and analyze cross-referenced memories to avoid confabulations. For example, using Bayesian Truth Serum.
In short, this is a great way to get the most useful and accurate information about a person in the [very] relatively near future.
There could be data in your brain even if you could not consciously retrieve it. Also I wouldn’t say “brain memory capacity is over-estimated” since there are in fact humans that can train themselves to memorize an insane amount of things.
Yes, there are people with eidetic memory, so we can hope that there is a part of the brain which records everything constantly—maybe I just don’t have access to it.
Kim Peek memorized 12000 books, but it is only 12 GB of data—insane for a person but trivial for computer. He also didn’t train himself but was a savant.
Typical size of human consciously accessible memory was estimated by Landauer and is 1-2 GB.
Currently, digital resurrection relies on artifacts such as photographs of a person, their correspondence, or voice recordings. But in the future, when whole brain emulation becomes possible, we will have a far more comprehensive source of information about a deceased person than ever before.
Based on the theory of mind, each of us has a “simulation” of important people in our brains. We will be able to extract these simulations from the WBEs of various people who knew the deceased and analyze cross-referenced memories to avoid confabulations. For example, using Bayesian Truth Serum.
In short, this is a great way to get the most useful and accurate information about a person in the [very] relatively near future.
I would add that brain memory capacity is over-estimated and my digital exoself has more data than I remember.
There could be data in your brain even if you could not consciously retrieve it. Also I wouldn’t say “brain memory capacity is over-estimated” since there are in fact humans that can train themselves to memorize an insane amount of things.
Yes, there are people with eidetic memory, so we can hope that there is a part of the brain which records everything constantly—maybe I just don’t have access to it.
Kim Peek memorized 12000 books, but it is only 12 GB of data—insane for a person but trivial for computer. He also didn’t train himself but was a savant.
Typical size of human consciously accessible memory was estimated by Landauer and is 1-2 GB.