08-02-2013, 12:03 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-02-2013, 03:29 PM by stevebowers.)
That's right. Uploading and engeneration in OA transfers much less information than the entire quantum load. In that paper the total information required for a human body and mind is calculated to be 4.5x 10e42 bits; I think an engenerator from the late First Federation would only transfer about 10e20 bits, so it would take about ten seconds to transmit a human using the transmitters they describe. Probably the amount of information transmited would increase in later, more sophisticated versions of the technology; at the end of this page http://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/4a3d78dc77e6f I mention that full, quantum teleportation is possible using transapient technology, but the bandwidth for this sort of transfer must be gigantic.
The sort of uploading imagined in OA assumes that a mind can be copied at several levels of fidelity, and that the essential details of a personality can be described in much less than 4.5x 10e42 bits. This means that an uploaded personality in OA is a copy of the original, rather than having the same identity. A low-fi simulation of a person's identity could probably be acheived using only a few petabits, but obviously the more information tranferred the better.
But there is a limit to how much of an improvement could be made by increasing the fidelity of the copy - brains are warm, organic entities, and after a certain level all you are copying is thermal noise and brownian motion in liquids and colloids.
The sort of uploading imagined in OA assumes that a mind can be copied at several levels of fidelity, and that the essential details of a personality can be described in much less than 4.5x 10e42 bits. This means that an uploaded personality in OA is a copy of the original, rather than having the same identity. A low-fi simulation of a person's identity could probably be acheived using only a few petabits, but obviously the more information tranferred the better.
But there is a limit to how much of an improvement could be made by increasing the fidelity of the copy - brains are warm, organic entities, and after a certain level all you are copying is thermal noise and brownian motion in liquids and colloids.