<![CDATA[If you upload your mind to a computer, are you immortal or just a bot?]]>
If you upload your mind to a computer, are you immortal or just a bot?
“Immortality has gone secular. Unhooked from the realm of gods and angels, it’s now the subject of serious investment—both intellectual and financial—by philosophers, scientists, and the Silicon Valley set. Several hundred people have already chosen to be “cryopreserved” in preference to simply dying, as they wait for science to catch up and give them a second shot at life. But if we treat death as a problem, what are the ethical implications of the highly speculative “solutions” being mooted?…”
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You’re an npc in a nightmare world where your enemies have all the cheats turned on and you don’t even know what is going on
]]>Trying to out-do God again huh? Good lock with that one dummies.
]]>You accept that your memory is just data and that your selfawarness is just data.
Your immortality is just the continuation of that data as well as how it is processed.
]]>There will then be two of you…
1. The original you
2. An AI bot with the data from your brain uploaded into it thinking it is you
When the original you dies, “you” are dead, but the bot “lives” on.
]]>Tim Tremblay Right. Because what God wants is for you to call other people dummies. And to misspell luck. Good lock with that one…
]]>Wasim Muklashy Jesus whispers in Tims ear. Doncha know?
]]>Ah but of course! Silly me…
]]>only, if you manage conscious uploading while keeping a continuous perception of the body and can shut down the brain orderly. To avoid SF nightmares of lingering consciousnesses left behind. Good to know they are in investment time, they werent.
]]>Wasim Muklashy only if it’s true Washim, in your case it seems to fit. Lol~!
]]>Tim Tremblay Meh.
]]>Pffft
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