Consciousness is the inflection upon the substrate of existence. It is the universe perceiving and interacting with itself through the embodiment of living things.<p>It is the atoms in our brain which are experiencing consciousness, animated by our electro-chemical jelly bag brains.<p>Consciousness is not intelligence. Awareness is only the tip of the consciousness iceberg (as we remain the stuff “of consciousness” when asleep or in a coma.)<p>Quantum computing is the closest to consciousness, only the qubit is an irrelevant dead end (consciousness is analog and the quantum dynamic works like a sieve.)<p>Yes consciousness may be “transferred” as it distributes itself over billions of neurons (giving the illusion of a subjective singularity), yet must have a ground (any stable physical base) which contains enough information to even identify itself (your memories and sense of identity are stored in your physical brain and are not technically part of your consciousness.)<p>It is more likely/possible to entangle your consciousness with another person and have a conversation with yourself.<p>Consciousness is more like electricity (potential of existential being) that may be shared than an artifact with its own identity.
I'll leave the question of whether mind uploading is possible to philosophers(We don't know what consciousness is, so I don't know how we could upload it, even if we could copy brains perfectly).<p>What we can do is train machine learning text models to sound like a person, or even like a fictional character(With human-written training data) People have done thar before, but not on a RasPi, at least not without acceleration hardware.
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