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Home Articles Reviews Videos App Store Book Shop Forum Is Tron Possible? By Adam Sinicki I love the idea of Tron. Essentially here you have this programmed world where you can experiment with the nature of our own reality, and you have another world that you can escape into for adventure and and discovery before returning to your own. It also all looks very cool with lots of bright lights... But is it possible? In Tron you do not only have your consciousness uploaded, but your whole body. Physically transported into the computer. Can that be done? The Situation In Tron they try to give something of a half-arsed explanation for how this can happen by using the word 'quantum' - which is the way that we still explain almost everything we don't understand. However they're not just beamed into a world that they programmed, but rather into the system itself (at least that's the case in the first one). In other words they encounter firewalls and viruses and are in the computer itself rather than in a virtual reality world. Essentially then, this idea is simply not possible or even logical. Firewalls are just scripts run by the computer, they obviously don't have personalities like Tron, and you couldn't beam in there and talk to one. In Tron: Legacy this seems a little more conceivable, more as though they are inside a virtual reality world that was programmed by Flynn. Obviously this is much more advanced than anything we could create, but that much is conceivable. Virtual Reality we could do. What's not realistic of course is the idea that it's actually their body in system. If they were scanned and recreated atom to atom in the computer at an atomic level by the same software then sure I suppose you might feel like it was really you in there. At the same time if your brain was reconstructed atom from atom in a realistic simulation then you could even argue that your 'soul' could be in the system or your consciousness. But the question then would have to be - what's happened to your real body during this point? This has always been the problem with teleportation in general - many explanations for how it would work suggest collapsing the particles and then rebuilding the person elsewhere exactly the same. Thing is though that's still a new you - it's not actually you. Unless you believe that your soul is somehow born out of your arrangement of atoms (there's a word for that theory but I don't remember it). Unfortunately most people don't believe that. I proposed a solution to the teleportation problem - which would be to actually transform the atoms in the person into photons and send those before converting them back. This way you have actually moved the same matter in the same arrangement so it would be the same system. Somehow you would have to convert those solid atoms into data in the computer - so perhaps electrical signals? - before converting them back. So that would be 'quantum something' then... Bearing in mind just the human brain is ten terabytes at least with the most conservative of estimates, that would have to be some kind of supercomputer that could run a programme that was our entire system. Again it's years ahead of what we could do, and it would have to be either some kind of cloud computing that could pull the power from lots of different systems, or it would be some kind of quantum computer with a quantum hard drive which would be similarly impressive - though they do already exist (technically these computers have 'infinite' hard drive space). Consciousness Uploading So so far it could theoretically be sort of possible in a way if you really really push it, but it's reliant on being able to take your atoms and transform them into electrical signals, and on there being a computer powerful enough to run that. And also the most complex virtual reality we've ever seen. Then it would need to convert those atoms back. So really the answer is no... This is very similar to a concept in Transhumanism called 'consciousness uploading' which is one proposed way to live forever. Here you upload your consciousness into the system in order to shed your physical body and never die. Again though it has all the same problems - that even if you could recreate your brain precisely digitally, that it would not necessarily be you as you could still exist outside the computer. It could have your memories and personality, but would it be you? One suggestion that has been suggested is to wire your brain into the computer and to gradually replace your brain parts with computer parts in order to 'transition' you into a machine and then send your consciousness into the ether. This could be seen as a way to exist in a Tron like state (though irreversible), but it has problems again. For instance the fact that the brain is plastic and changeable and will build new neurons/destroy old ones as you go - as yet there is no computer that can do this. You could have a biological computer of course (and I do believe that that is what computers will be like one day) but then that defeats the whole point of this exercise doesn't it? You could have a brain-in-a-vat like scenario with a brain that just transmits the signal to elsewhere, but that's not really Tron. My Proposed Solution One solution I came up with, that granted is quite different from the idea of Tron, would be to programme your brain in such a way as to create a virtual reality in your own head. The brain is not far from a computer, so you could in theory programme it with binary. The firing of certain neurons can make us experience certain things, so we could experience a constructed reality just as a result of some kind of deep brain stimulation.  Copyright 2012 The Biomatrix.Net

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