I know very little about this, but I am interested to see what happens with AI technology. A brain is a system that we describe as having ways of producing information in individual units and then communicating information between the individual units, with groups of the individual units forming connected functional systems, and these functional systems interact with each other if you are looking at it at that level, or you can go down to the level of individual units.
Last I heard, the neural network approach in computer science conceptually looks a lot like human cognitive and cognitive-neuroscientific (those are both individual fields) systems, but coded out with math and stuff. From what I know there’s a lot of statistics involved and other relatively advanced math fields, but you also have to create all the software, and also somehow actually assemble all the resources needed to do this to a point that makes business sense to do because unless it’s for money or for weapons good luck ever getting that done.
Presumably brains are important for living biological organisms to have relatively complex psychological systems, considering how many different kinds of brains there are. If you can mimic the sorts of things brains do in a different medium than biology, I could see it being possible for some sort of consciousness to arise as a simple result of creating a system capable of learning and self-awareness.
I forget the names of the philosophers who would disagree with me here, but there seems to be consciousness, and I seem to exist within consciousness. Even if you are a materialist, if you agree that consciousness exists, regardless of free will or not, then consciousness is very highly correlated with brains. We at least know that a human brain can produce consciousness or at the least seems to be associated with consciousness. I’m not saying that this is a hill I would die on by any means, but the possibility of a computer system replicating brain function but in computer hardware instead of biological hardware being associated with consciousness and within that consciousness there being a system which is capable of learning and is self-aware, perhaps even possesses the samsaric delusion of a self, that possibility seems reasonable to me.
Consciousness transferring? Maybe focus more on the yogas. You have to meditate or you can’t do it. You also have to understand what it is you are going for. Omniscience. Omnipresence. Omnipotence. You must become a living god because there is no God that will give you power unless you are one of the few who knows to seek this power.
Not only this, you have to go beyond this, into nothingness. It is from nothingness where I draw my strength. Death is a gateway into nothingness. Have you ever passed into nothingness, and then emerge once again? Sleep is not nothingness, at least that is what I gather from a sleep yoga text. This can be achieved only after a lengthy and focused period of deep spiritual work. Perhaps with extreme balance and enough time you could achieve difficult spiritual attainments while living a largely material life, but this is a limited path, if I am to be honest, when it comes to spiritual attainment. If you want these experiences, you have to do the practices. There is no other option.
This may sound exaggerated. I believe that my experiences speak very well for themselves. I am not like these people anymore, and this is apparent in the quality of my mental experience and my material life. If you think “omnipotence” is a meme, that is your loss. We live in the gross material world, so it’s not as immediate, but if you have not experienced many magickal results, then I can see how this would be challenging to grasp. You also have to realize that magick is a skill, many skills really, and knowing how to ask for results makes a big difference.
What, you never done baneful magick before? You know, I bet there are some people out there who keep track of all the different people they have cursed. This is not financial advice, don’t sue me.
Gotta think real carefully about giving the complex computer systems the Corruption power. Increase. Increase. Increase. Why don’t yah just keep jamming the Prosperity button there my computer dude. What a great product!