Human Mind; Roughly 300 MB of Information

Rewatching the TV show Caprica and observing its relevance today.

So, you’re an insanely rich CEO of a company like Boston Dynamics, and you want to secure a contract with the Ministry of Defense for your robot soldiers. However, the current version of the robots doesn’t work very well, and your whole business is in danger.

At the same time, your teenage daughter Zoe is a coding prodigy (which you are not aware of because you’re never home and too rich to pay attention). One day, she dies in a terrorist attack. After the initial shock is over, you discover that she had been more than just playing around with her Apple Vision Pro headset (your previous invention that made you a billionaire). In fact, she had been able to create an independent avatar with a consciousness of its own. But how did she do it?

Well, she figured out that perhaps she could find all her digital data and feed it into a ChatGPT engine, which would then run the voice synthesizer and the 3D avatar. It’s not that difficult, as she explains:

The human brain contains roughly 300 megabytes of information. Not much, when you get right down to it. It isn’t how to store it. It’s how to access it. You can’t download a personality, but the information being held in our heads is available in…