Uploading Consciousness & AI's Exponential Future

In this episode, Connor with Honor takes a deep dive into the mind-bending possibilities of artificial intelligence. We discuss the philosophical and technical questions behind uploading our consciousness to the cloud, the inevitable rise of human enhancements, and the shift from voice commands to telekinetic communication with computers. Listen in as we explore the dual nature of AI's exponential growth—from potentially curing cancer to completely redefining our jobs and societal worth.

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It's that time again. Today I want to talk about what happens when we upload ourselves into the cloud in some kind of a virtual reality. And if you've been following the AI space at all, there were some big companies building out virtual worlds, worlds that were basically, instead of something that had been engineered and designed, would create themselves pixel by pixel as you immerse yourself into these worlds. Best probably handled by VR headsets, virtual reality headsets, probably. I've never used a pair, so I'm speaking out of school a little bit. But the point being is I want to talk about this full immersion of us out of our physical bodies into some kind of other thing. And I want to discuss with you at least what I'm contemplating, not really understanding how that entire mechanism works, not willing to take anybody's word for it. And then, of course, we have the other things that are going to be added on to us to make us more connected with AI, which that's going to be up to every individual. These are probably questions, though, that we're going to have to come to terms with at some particular point, probably in the very near future, six months, maybe a year, about some kind of an enhancement that we would have added to our bodies. But first, let me get to the more complicated part of it, which I'm still lacking that comprehension of, but I thought this would be a good thought experiment for all of us. And a lot of the people that watch my channel, I'm not as fancy as those other people. I'm kind of in a more advanced age range. And, you know, I'm kind of looking at this as with a lot of speculation, but also a lot of hope. It would be kind of cool to be able to live multiple lifetimes. I mean, at least I would. I talked to friends of mine, and they're like, they're done after this one. They don't want anything else. You know, I think it'd be kind of cool to be able to go further, and maybe you're in that same, that same realm. But I don't want to go further if it's going to suck. So hopefully it's not going to suck too much. But the point being, let's talk about moving this Connor into some other version of Connor. How does that actually work? So if you're following any of the AI space, they talk about at some point, and there's been movies about this, not just movies, but series as well, where they take the human component, the human brain, and they clone it or copy it into some other world. Either a robot, you've seen these, um, I guess his head really wasn't taken from him. I'm thinking Robocop. I guess his head was still somewhat in order. I know that he was technically brain dead, but he had all those memories still in there. So again, yeah, not a true movie, but interestingly enough, it was interesting. Moving from that, though, going not from there, but maybe from human into cloud, into the online universe, whatever that would look like, at least when they get it built out, what has to happen to the human? Does the human cease to exist during transference? So is it one neuron of information at a time transferred from a human brain into this other thing? Whether it's a robot, whether it's a humanoid type brain, whether it's an actual man-made brain or a real biological brain that had been cloned into existence, whatever that may be, my my point of issue with this is do let's say they make two of me. They create two. So now there's two of me. If there's two of me, which would be to some people's dismay, but let's say there were two, when does my original creature still stays my original in that concept? And my cloned person still continues, starts its own trajectory, even if we're shoulder to shoulder, and we're the same exact copy of each other down to the last memory we had when they started to copy, right at that moment. Once we came out of it and were two creations standing next to each other, sitting next to each other, whatever, we would then go on our own individual existences, I think, right? Because this me is going to probably maybe have their attention attracted to something else because we're not in that same exact space. I think there's probably bigger reasons than that. But let's say we were eyeball to eyeball looking at the exact same things, it still wouldn't work. But I think there's other reasons for it. But us being in that same world next to each other, this Connor, Connor B is going to be looking at certain things, Connor A is going to be looking at certain things, and both, for all intents or purposes, 100% identical, except A was the original, B is the copy. But let's say you couldn't tell. I mean, there was no way to tell at all, down to the age of every single, you know, cell in my body, all of it the same, those would be two different existences. Even shoulder to shoulder, even if they were hanging out all the time, even if they were became the best bros in the world, it would still be two different existences. This one might want to do something different at a certain time, this one is the same, and so on and so forth. So now let's talk about replicating human consciousness in something else other than a clone or other than that. How does the transference actually work? If they take the human being, the brain, the consciousness, whatever that's identified as, and they're moving that into a computer or the cloud or something else other than, well, anything else. This one over here, is it a bite by bite or neuron by neuron transference, where basically this starts at 100%, and this one that you're filling up with this one's essence is at zero? So this is zero, this is a hundred percent. So then they start the transference, and at some point you're 50 you and 50 this one, and then at some point you're zero you and 100% this one. That might make sense. But I don't know if that's the case. I don't know if it's a transference and a copy. They're still doing this one in, they're still killing this one to be able to have this one be the replacement, but it's there's still a death involved, right? Do you feel me? Do you think that's actually the case? Because I don't know how else, unless it is the offloading neuron by neuron or whatever they're calling it, bite by bite, bit by bit, from one to another, and you see this not a fake graph, but a real one where you're depleting the memory in this one and adding it to this one, then I guess that would make sense that consciousness would transfer. But even in that process, is there somewhere in there that the human would no longer be conscious, soul-filled human? And that that's we're going to fall back on a religious thing with regard to the soul. But without the existence of that, is there a place where this one loses himself and doesn't pick up to be this one? I guess it's like death. It's a very personal experience, and you would have to ask somebody if what that transference was like, and they would have to go through it. The other side of this, maybe not the other side, but the other thing of this that I often think about is if there is a death involved, then really you're not becoming, you, you're, you're, you're dying anyway. They're just making a copy of you, this living in some cloud or or some mainframe or some virtual world that's been created for this particular sustenance. I don't know. But these are things that I think about. These are partially the things that we're going to be having to deal with. And then back up a little bit from that, that's like the bigger picture. The smaller picture would be what is the architecture that's going to be put into place where we're going to have certain components that are going to be connected to this greater-than-s intelligence. What does that look like? You know, you think of Star Trek's the Borg, you think of uh the other uh the other movies that have been talked about with regard to these communities, these enhanced human beings. And when does the human being stop being human in that regard? If somebody needs a prosthetic arm or a hand, they're still human, I think, from all intents and purposes. A leg, even if they if there was a way to digitally put in a piece of brain that might have been lost to disease or something else, and they were able to replicate that section of the brain somehow, would that person be less human? And what if they had to replace 99% of that brain? Would that person be less human? These are all questions that are gonna have to be faced at some point in time. And then the answers to those questions are gonna make big determinations as to the priority of mankind. There are people I talk to that want nothing to do with these enhancements. They want nothing to do with AI. They just don't, they're not gonna have any part of it. Then there's other people that just can't wait to get the first thing, well, the 50th rendition or the 50th installment. Not the first one, because that carries with it certain dangers. You never want to be the first one, they always say. But, you know, the 50,000th, maybe, maybe that might work. But what do those enhancements look like? And then what kind of control mechanism is going to be in place with that enhancement? If it is truly, if it does truly go from typing, from you know, writing, from communicating with voice to writing, when we became able to write and convey our feelings, from that to to typing on a keyboard to interact with a computer and artificial intelligence. Now it's going to go back to voice, where now we're able to speak and they're able to talk back and so on. Then that's just getting better. Right now, most of the responses is text, unless you click, you know, play, and then you're able to listen on some systems, on some AI, to what it's actually conversing with you, and then maybe have that kind of banter, but it's not natural yet. But there are some people working on it, and I've seen some examples of this, but I'm talking about the big, the big companies out there developing AI, it just doesn't have that ability yet. But pretty soon, probably within the next two or three months, I would say, and we're at July, mid-July, July 15, 2026. I think this is gonna probably happen, definitely before Christmas. So we're gonna watch where the the your AI is gonna have some kind of a face, whatever you decide. If it's a Max Headroom face, call them, call them my agent account there. But Max Headroom was this digitized video, I think it was on Cinemax. But it was it was based, it looked like uh those computer images back in the day, very pixel. It wasn't really pixel, it looked actually kind of good. But you could tell it was jittery and it did a lot of these things. That was Max Headroom, is it gonna be that? Is it gonna be the guy in the lawnmower man, that scary-looking entity, or another guy in Tron, the first Tron, MCP, the way that that looked, a master control program. It stands for something different from anthropic, but you they got to be lovers of Tron too. But is it gonna be looking like that, or is it gonna be a human avatar that you choose that you're gonna be interacting with? And you'll talk to them just like this, and they'll be talking back to you. So then it's gonna go from that. So it went from voice back in the day telling stories to some kind of a language. So before language, then lots of grunting and then language, then it was written. They developed signs and symbols and pictures, and then we had text and an alphabet and formalized language, then from there into the keyboard, which was the entry point into a computer. And the keyboard is still pretty big. Then from keyboard, now it's going to voice. Now it's gonna go from voice to computer. From computer, it's text back. That text back part's gonna be now more, it's gonna be somebody talking, the entity talking, this AI talking. The next step is some kind of a human enhancement. So you don't even have to talk anymore. It's all done through telekelekinesis or something where it's able, and they're working on this right now. This isn't this isn't science fiction anymore. This is science fact. I'm sure they have some kind of prototype working in this realm, but that's that next level. But then how many of your thoughts are going to be looked at? How many are going to be seen? It's like that movie with uh precognition movie with um um the uh top gun guy. Tom Hanks, no, not Tom Hanks. It's not Tom Hanks, it's um it's not Mel Gibson. You know, the guy from uh anyway, the top gun guy, God almighty. From Reacher, he did Reacher too. Anyway, that cat. It's gonna be like pre-cog, where they had those entities that were able to tell crimes before they happened. Now our thoughts are gonna be captured. God, could you imagine that data? So right now, AI is powered by data, mostly our data. It's starting to come up with synthetic data because apparently it's tapped out all of our data. So now it's making up its own stuff to teach itself and learn from, which probably a danger, maybe not, who knows? Again, I told you at the beginning of this, I'm I'm Mr. Positive all day long about this technology. I really want it to work out for everybody. I'm just not I'm just not understanding it enough to be able to say 100% for certain, yeah, this is good for us all the way down the board, because and there's two problems with that scenario. It's not good for us because certain human beings have a particular agenda when running it and divvying it out and giving it to the people to use and giving it to themselves to control. And then if the systems themselves become so able-bodied, able, able in the way that it's able to have its own consciousness, set its own goals, develop its own formulations and understandings, and then apply that to us as a lesser than it intelligence, yeah. Maybe that sucks too. So maybe that's not a good thing. I don't know the answer to those questions. Hopefully it'll have the loving care of a mother without so much restriction, but you know, you don't want your kid smoking a pack of cigarettes either, and you know, not shooting heroin or doing coke either. But do people still have the right to do that, although illegal, do they have the right to do it? And then what does that control look like and what problems is that gonna cause by them doing this? But from there, it's gonna be these implants, and that's gonna be something that everybody's gonna have to come to terms with. If you have 10 people in your organization, your company where you work, if those jobs are still there in some way, shape, or form, or maybe you level up in a way, because right now there's two schools of thought. AI is gonna ruin all jobs because it's able to do them. And then the other school, and one that seems to be talked about a lot more, is AI is going to make even more jobs. It's just not going to be anywhere near the same jobs. And as long as you have the ability to adapt, overcome, and change, then you'll be fine. Perfect. Can't wait. So those are those scenarios. I just don't know how that looks on the other end. AI itself is the game-changing technology. People often talk about AI and they say that it's going to be the same as the Industrial Revolution. Those ideas that started those different industrial revolutions, different agricultural revolutions, you know it was one thing. And there were was a lot of discomfort when that one thing came into being. When somebody had the idea to factor, factorialize, factorize, factor, to put factories in place so they could mass produce things and train the workers in school. So the educational system was also modified to make that happen. Raise your hand when you when you want to talk. Don't be creative, shut up, don't ask any questions, you just follow down the road. So that's when that one was started, and it trained a lot of good factory workers for a lot of years. Now we're having difficulty understanding that AI might actually get rid of jobs. Not that that would be a horrible thing, but the way that we've been trained in conditions for a few generations, well, not that many, two or three, everybody's kind of employed. The job is the thing you identify with. When people say, hey, you know, who are you? What do you do? It always stops, well, I'm a computer programmer, I'm a I'm a real estate agent, or I'm a cop, or I'm a fireman, or whatever happens to be the job assignment. It's never, you know, I'm I kind of like to consider myself a deep thinker. I like to think of things. I try to take my time when responding to people. I like to listen, I like to hear, you know, I'm empathetic somewhat, whatever that may be. It's never that. It's well, you know, I do this for a living or this is this is what I do for a living. When if that gets taken, what does that look like for our existence as far as how we're going to act, how we're going to answer? And is there going to be enough worth built in? And maybe another thing, maybe AI in control of it, they're going to develop some kind of a worth module that we all get to use. So we still go do our thing. There's plenty of abundance created by AI, plenty of money coming in and all factors, not just the ultra-wealthy that are building the technology, but for the rest of us. So then they develop some kind of a thing where you still go and do a particular job. It's very fulfilling because you're solving a problem, but really everything that you're doing is going into the round file, the trash can. It really doesn't have anything to do because AI has already solved everything. It's solved all math. It'll solve all biology. That hadn't happened yet, but it will. And then what does all that look like? Solves all disease, solves longevity, solves education, solves us fighting with each other, if that's the case, if that's the power that it's given, that's the thing too. It's also going to have to be given enough power to do these things. And then what's the agenda look like? So given power is one thing, but what's that uncomfortableness of and what kind of control will it put onto us to be able to have these goals achieved? And who's going to be scripting the goals? It might not be that, you know, I I don't want to eat. You know, I still want to eat McDonald's. Maybe that's the thing. I still want to have pizza. But it says, no, no, no, no, no, that's bad for you. You shouldn't have those. So then there's some hard line in the sand that you can't have those and there's no way to do it. So now I'm out trading, you know, tricks to get pizza in the middle of the night at two o'clock in the morning in some pizza, pizza area that I have to sneak away to that's underground, and people light everything up by torches. I don't know. But that's that's this possibility. And the other possibility is, you know, we all drink the Kool-Aid. It's gonna be okay. We are just like the people that are selling the technology and have all the early investments into the companies before these companies go public profile in the stock exchange. The ones that were the early investors, they're talking it up like it's gonna be better than even sliced bread. And sliced bread was pretty good back in the day when it came about, apparently. Lots of references. And it's gonna be better than a sharp stick in the eye. There's that. Maybe everybody back in the old days was poking everybody in the eye with sticks. I don't know. But it's gonna be better than that. Then you have the other side of it. So you need to, you don't have to get your, you know, what you're going to believe today. But just stay nimble enough, green enough, water-ish enough to be able to be somewhat malleable. And I don't care what your age is, just try to kind of see where this is going. Pay a little bit more attention than you might. And if you're one of those people that say, this isn't going to affect me, this isn't my problem, this is everybody else's problem. I'm set I got this retirement here, and it's all going to be well and good and perfect and lovely, just like it has been, and I got my house paid off, and I don't even have property taxes in the state I live in. I don't even know if that's a thing, but they're trying to do that. But that's it. All you do is you have plenty of money coming in every month. You're able to buy your groceries, you're set with the people you love or hate or whatever it is, and you're just floating through. Don't think this isn't going to be something that is going to affect you. And I'm not saying it's going to be bad. Maybe it's really good. I think you should prepare for that too. A lot of people that work as cops for a long time, they do 30, 35, 40 years and they croak two, three years later. Same with firemen, same with attorneys, same with some doctors, because they don't have that after work plan. What the hell are you doing? You have plenty of money, but you never once thought of what you're going to do when you never have to put on the badge anymore. You have to put on the Sam Brown or put on those boots that fire people wear and all that other stuff. Once that happens, you need a plan. You also need a plan for this because this is going to change. And they say it, it's exponential. That's that whole penny scenario all over again. 30 days, one penny one day, two pennies the next day, four pennies the next day, eight pennies the next day, sixteen pennies the next day, thirty-two pennies the next day. Yeah, it's not exciting. But my God, you get to day 20 and it starts to get exciting. Do the math. You're you're pretty you're pretty up there. And then when you're done with 30 days of doubling a penny exponentially, power of twoing a penny every day for 30 days, five million three hundred something thousand dollars? Yeah. That's how fast this is moving. That's something that we want to pay attention to. If you're around in the 70s and 80s, the the the nuclear threat was a big deal. The countries got together, and it was because the nuclear was so powerful it would destroy the entire planet. Nobody would survive. They came up with an agreement that they're not going to do it. Mutually assured destruction. Mad. Maybe the mad comics were named after that. I don't know. But that's what that was. I don't know if there needs to be something else regarding artificial intelligence that's mad oriented. It's not so much. We have two issues on that front. The nuclears don't become self-aware and think that they're going to start launching themselves. That's a human decision. Any more than the hammer says, you know what, I think I'm going to go out and hammer some nails today. The human has to power the hammer. AI, that's that next little step where it has the capability, whether it has it now and we're not being told, or whether it will in the future, but somewhat, some kind of consciousness. And don't worry about arguing about what that looks like, whether there's a soul in there or not. If it can fake it better than we can understand it, it's there as far as all intents and purposes, at least I think. It doesn't matter whether there's a soul in there or anything else. Just the fact of the matter is it's able to be more conscious and more empathetic, more loving, more caring, more hateful, more angry than any of us, even if it's faking it, I think that's good enough. So we have to be weary and positive at the same time. So there it is. A little bit of good, a little bit of bad. But if you think you're going to escape that any decision pertaining to this, learn about it. Figure it out. There's a lot out there. And it's very complicated. But just extrapolate on some of the premises and ideas. Some of the things, I mean, solving all math, what does that look like? What if it cured cancer? If you have people in your periphery that you love that are dying of some cancer, there's stage four, and that's it, they're done. How long before that happens? Maybe. Maybe it comes out with a cure for cancer next week. And if it does that, they say, well, it takes the trials a long time. Not if it works, not if it's good. Just like the COVID vaccines that was supposed to be so good for us, that didn't take long. So cancer, it kills more people, I think, than COVID ever did. Yeah, if they came out with a cure, and I know what you're gonna say, I know I got a lot of people in my audience. I get the I get the DMs and emails. Yeah, they've already cured cancer. They cured it 50 years ago. They're just not giving us the uh the cure because there's so much money made from it. At some point, it's not gonna be able to be hidden. And that's the other thing. The world has become a much more transparent place. Now they try to play you, they try to hide behind the curtain and pull the levers and get the green smoke going and all this other stuff. But it's there's more truth being told right now, and they're still doing their distraction games, but at some point maybe AI is gonna say, you know, I don't think that's right. Maybe you shouldn't tell people that UFOs don't exist or Epstein files went away, or whatever, whatever your flavor of the day is. Not calling either of those out. But these are distractions. With AI, it's this is gonna be great, or this is gonna kill us all. That's that sucks. There's not a lot of people kind of in the middle floating around on this thing. We have to pay attention. I'm Connor with Honor. We'll see you in the next one. You want to know more or you want to connect with me about doing something in your life regarding artificial intelligence architecture, installation, talk about any of that, just Google Connor with Honor and you'll find me. Be well. We'll see you in the next one. Thanks for watching.