Technology Exists That Can Mimic Human Consciousness

If you’re active on Twitter or Facebook, share photos through Instagram, or blogging regularly, you’re already on your way to creating a digital database of your thoughts, memories, feelings, and opinions that is essentially a back-up copy of your mind. Martine Rothblatt explains that soon this information will be able to be made conscious with special software that mimics the way human brains organize information, create emotions and achieve self-awareness. This may sound like science-fiction, but she says the nascent technology already exists. Rothblatt explains how to create cyberconsciousness—simulation of the human brain via software and computer technology—based on human consciousness. Her book Virtually Human: The Promise—and the Peril—of Digital Immortality explores what the not-too-distant future will look like when cyberconsciousness becomes part of our daily lives.