True Artificial Reality
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| Today's digital computers use digital bits to process information. Tomorrow's quantum computers will use quantum bits, also called qubits, to process information. And just as today's recording devices use digital bits to make a recording of something, tomorrow's recording devices will use quantum bits, or qubits, to make a recording of something. I believe that someday, when they are able to teleport a person for real from one place to another, that quantum teleportation will be used along with quantum computers. In fact, I believe the two technologies will merge. Quantum teleportation may progress to the point(forward:1000 years) where a large object(human) can be scanned in, while a qubit recorder captures quantum data necessary, that when played back through a receiving teleporting machine, will produce copies of that human in that machine. This scheme may not work, however, because the no-cloning theorem might be violated. However, it's a fair bet that when science gets smart enough to teleport a person, science will also be smart enough to create a machine that can make instant copies of that person! Since the data recalled are qubits, why not instead feed the data directly into a quantum computer where e-versions of humans(and all other physical objects) can comfortably reside? This would take artificial reality to a new level: True Artificial Reality. If God doesn't put a stop to this it's no telling what scientists will do! Seriously, I believe that God wouldn't mind, since sinners can be saved even in a computer world! I used to question whether I was living in the real world, or whether I was living in some kind of virtual reality! Good scientific question or good dose of insanity?! It depends, of course, on what your personal philosophy is. A real virtual reality world with real people living inside that virtual world will only be possible if humanity doesn't destroy itself with a nuclear war, because extinction of the human race would mean an end to all future scientific progress, and an end to all the miracles that this future science would bring. I can't bear the thought! But here's the fun part: once the world can reasonably say that it has rid itself of all dangerous weapons of mass destruction, especially nukes, anything is technologically possible! No feat is too far-fetched! And all people living then will know about the possibility that she or he may quite well be living in a virtual reality world! The possibilities are unlimited. Technical question: Can computers think the way we do? AND FEEL? Well, maybe not. the human brain is a biological entity, and good ole Mother Nature may know the secret to the mind better than we do! But not to worry! They will build biological computers, if they have to. By the time science is smart enough to upload a human mind, they will also know the right way to build a conscious computer!! Pleasant dreams! Don't take too many red pills!! |
| Degree Of Artificial Reality | What it May Involve | Deep Space Artificial Reality-A Real Extreme Artificial Reality | Cosmos Itself Becomes a Computer |
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| Extreme Artificial Reality | Mind Uploading Becomes a Reality |
| Virtual Reality | Virtual Movie Actors, Popular Video Games |
| Primitive Virtual Reality | We Are Just Beginning to Advance Beyond this Stage |
| I have had paranormal experiences; somehow, I still believe very much my world is real. One such paranormal experience is when, as a teen, with the help of tinfoil, I connected flashlight batteries to the prongs of a wire leading to a alternating current (AC) only AM radio, and got music. It didn't surprise me then, because I wasn't aware at the time that something like this wasn't supposed to happen. Of course, I could be experiencing a false memory. I don't check the email that much, but I sometimes can be reached at alvin-l@frea.cc. Some final thoughts: scientists who work in the field of A.I. (Artificial Intelligence), and scientists who work in the field of robotics love to speculate about whether the world is real, whether someday machines will take over, and even become human, i.e., steal our humanity away from us. But, if I am in a machine, and don't know it, or hooked up to a machine, that is, "plugged in" and don't even know it, or if I am even the machine itself, that does nothing to take my humanity away from me. I still experience pleasure, pain, desires, fears, still love to eat ice cream, still am searching for much better treatments for my physical and mental illnesses, still like the ladies, still love cats and dogs(and rabbits), still feel the need to pray sometimes. You get the picture? Inside or outside THE DREAM, the world is still very much real. Inside or outside THE DREAM, one still wants to have a happy and successful life. On the other hand, it is true that there is a scary side to believing you, or I, am living inside an artificial reality world. But when I realised that this artificial world would be created for our survival as a species, I felt liberated from the spooky aspects that come with inhabiting an artificial world.  Out of Africa Science Daily space.com Send E-Mail to: alvin-l@frea.cc Copyright © 2004 Alvin Lindsay, Jr. All Rights Reserved |