Putting it simply, computers typically don't understand anything. At least, certainly not in the same way as we do. Computers do not have the same form of consciousness that we possess, and neither will they ever. The core fundamentals of how they operate are much different from how our organic brains work; sure they also use electrical signals to process data and save it but they do not have the ability to replicate life, express free will or imagine things simultaneously such as us humans do.
Inevitably, computers do what they are told to do by us as they will always require some level of biased human programming or logic, even if the code is self-modifying; therefore in a sense, they will never be able to experience consciousness in the same way that we do due to this very reason.
But, why is this at all relevant to uploading our consciousness to a machine? Well, in my opinion, the entire theory lacks any kind of logic; why upload a fake form of our consciousness? It would not benefit us after passing away, perhaps it would even prevent members of your family from grieving if they had access to it; making someone's death even harder to accept is not something we should be striving for.
Even if you were to have billions of input vectors for a machine learning algorithm to replicate a person's consciousness, it still would be so incredibly wrong. Our human brains are far more complex than just some finite amount of traits, they have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. You simply cannot replicate free will and expect it to be real; as you would need to ask what "free will" even is in the first place, and as far as I am currently aware neuroscientists do not yet understand this concept yet in our brains.
Therefore, I believe the bottom line is no; we cannot upload our consciousness to a machine. At least, not an authentic version of our consciousness. Will we ever be able to do so? No. Why? It will always be a replica of the organic consciousness of a human, incapable of expressing free will. If you have even done a minor amount of research into machine learning algorithms, you could probably see where my thoughts stem from; having biased human input nodes in your algorithm is where the concept falls to its knees and there is no way around this.
Inevitably, computers do what they are told to do by us as they will always require some level of biased human programming or logic, even if the code is self-modifying; therefore in a sense, they will never be able to experience consciousness in the same way that we do due to this very reason.
But, why is this at all relevant to uploading our consciousness to a machine? Well, in my opinion, the entire theory lacks any kind of logic; why upload a fake form of our consciousness? It would not benefit us after passing away, perhaps it would even prevent members of your family from grieving if they had access to it; making someone's death even harder to accept is not something we should be striving for.
Even if you were to have billions of input vectors for a machine learning algorithm to replicate a person's consciousness, it still would be so incredibly wrong. Our human brains are far more complex than just some finite amount of traits, they have evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. You simply cannot replicate free will and expect it to be real; as you would need to ask what "free will" even is in the first place, and as far as I am currently aware neuroscientists do not yet understand this concept yet in our brains.
Therefore, I believe the bottom line is no; we cannot upload our consciousness to a machine. At least, not an authentic version of our consciousness. Will we ever be able to do so? No. Why? It will always be a replica of the organic consciousness of a human, incapable of expressing free will. If you have even done a minor amount of research into machine learning algorithms, you could probably see where my thoughts stem from; having biased human input nodes in your algorithm is where the concept falls to its knees and there is no way around this.
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