Brain clones will be created from data that represents you. The data will include memories, personality parameters, opinions, and physical representations. Since there is no practical way to record all of your experiences, your brain clone will be trained with a sparse data set, and infer much about you from that limited data.
Here is some of the training data that will be used to generate a brain clone.
Objectives
To be like you, a brain clone must want what you want. Specifying objectives may give your brain clone that direction.
Personal Statements
We all have opinions about the world we live in, our personal philosphy. These views of the world define who we are, and they are reasonably easy to capture as data points. These may be used to train a neural network to share you personal philosophy. A brain clone can also test the accuracy of its mimicry by seeing if it shares your opinions, and making adjustments if it doesn't. Write or record personal statements sharing your views on a topic.
Examples of You Telling Stories about Your Life
Your brain clone won't have experiences of its own to relate, it will tell about your experiences. To do that convincingly, it will need will need to experience how you tell stories about your life. And through exposure to your most important stories, it will be able to tell them as you want them to be told.
Memories
A clone should have your memories, or at least access to them. These include journal entries, calendar data, and life event summaries. For example, I have kept a journal since 1973. I have also written summaries of important life events. In addition, I have organized digitized images of people and events throughout my life. My digital calendar doesn't go back as far, but it includes a record of my events.
These memories may be used to train a neural net. Certainly the life event summaries will be useful. However, most of the day-to-day memories may be more useful as reference material, allowing a brain clone to look up events and people as needed. A brain clone will have access to search routines, and should be able to retrieve events and images better than I can.
Pesonality Parameters
We all have personality traits that can be represented on a simple scalar range. For example, you may perpetually optimistic or more realistic or even pessimistic. These personality traits predict how you, and your clone, will react to various situations. Over 600 personality traits have been identified. We are focusing on a subset for brain clones, including:
Optimism/Realism - Given a current situation, are you optimistic about the outcome or pessimistic. Should your brain clone be optimistic.
Caution/Boldness - Given the current situation, how likely are you to take chances. This will determine how aggressively your brain clone will react.
Reserved/Candor - How likely are you to share personal opinions and memories. Your brain clone may know much about you. How quickly will it share that information, if at all.
Openness - How open are you to new experiences? Will your brain clone want to try new things or stick with what it knows.
Conscientiousness - Do you plan ahead, or are you spontaneous? This will determine how far ahead your brain clone plans.
Extraversion - Are you outgoing.
Agreeableness - Do you try to get along, or assert your opinions and preferences. Will your clone assert its opinion or preference, or accomodate the other party.
Neuroticism - How likely are you to become upset or emotional? If someone makes a disturbing statement to your brain clone, will it show emotion, or remain unperturbed.
These personality parameters may be based on standardized tests, or one can cheat and specify the settings. This is your chance to be more outgoing or bold!