Kreanoltha wrote:YellowApple wrote:
Perhaps a temporary upload for reprogramming purposes would be okay. I do like the angle of considering the organics to be excessively complex, though that also reeks of the whole "humans always win because they're special for some weird and contrived reason" trope. The justifications of doing it that way are also sound.
There is no reason to think that this would work. You can not up-load a mind, edit it, and redownload it with the fixes. Brains do not work that way. The only way to change the mind that is in the brain is to edit the neurons because that's all the mind is: neurons chatting with neurons. You have to reconfigure the neurons. Based on what you're talking about doing, you would still need surgery.
That's dependent on the assumption that the neurons themselves are storing data, or that the physical connections between neurons are the actual programming. Even if those assumptions are correct, it should still be possible to go brain-in-a-vat style and utilize the brain's own mechanisms of physical axon rerouting to perform the neuron reconfiguration.