"It cannot be assumed that a copy of a person that is accurate at the molecular level will have the same experience of consciousness. The reason? Consciousness may be a byproduct of happenings at the subatomic level. Certainly larger-scale events and processes are involved in shaping conscious experience, but consciousness remains isolated from the world-at-large in one key way . . . Enter quantum physics: specifically, the measurement problem of quantum physics, which summarizes several key experiements [sic] by saying that we only ever see one state of a particle/object/system that could express any of several other mutually-exclusive states. Quantum physics goes on to say that these particles/objects/systems exist as something else entirely (a wave-like state of potential) when they are not being observed. This suggests that consciousness is some sort of limited interface with reality, rather than an ability to perceive the true nature of things. And without understanding the nature of this interface, our ability to copy or transfer it accurately is questionable."
I personally think our brains are extremely limited organic quantum machines, in which case there's no obvious reason they can't be improved upon. But if we're to become "hyperconscious," our definition of technology itself must mutate to encompass notions such as "quantum tantra" and related neurological states. If we can make this ontological shift, I predict our understanding of the "paranormal" will blossom, and that the curtain between consensus reality and liminal phenomena such as apparent alien visitation will fall.
Perhaps this will be the Singularity I've been hearing so much about.
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