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08-02-2018, 11:22 AM | #1 | |||
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So inspired by the other thread and also the Film Chappie
If scientists discovered how to download and extract peoples consciousness and upload it too a mechanical body before you died, would you do it? So basically you would be able to live forever (be it as a robot until they discover how to make biological host bodies)
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08-02-2018, 11:24 AM | #2 | ||
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deff no - only so much crap poetry this world can take
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08-02-2018, 11:26 AM | #3 | ||
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Maybe but what bothers me is if a computer was able to replicate your brain and consciousness, would it be you living that consciousness?
It may replicate how you think and feel and stuff but would it be you(if that makes sense)? |
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08-02-2018, 11:27 AM | #4 | |||
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Absolutely not I want to rest in peace
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08-02-2018, 11:27 AM | #5 | ||
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Only if the main figures in my life had this done too I'd guess.
However I've come to the view that energy in some form probably does continue after death. So this scientific move would be less of an attraction for myself anyway. |
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08-02-2018, 11:28 AM | #6 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:29 AM | #7 | |||
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yeah like there could be multiple copies made of you as well
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08-02-2018, 11:29 AM | #8 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:30 AM | #9 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:33 AM | #10 | ||
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I’d imagine living forever would get boring too and probably lonely but I’m all for having more than 80 on average years
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08-02-2018, 11:33 AM | #11 | |||
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I don't know, maybe if loved ones could do it too. I do sometimes feel our life spans are very short.
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08-02-2018, 11:40 AM | #12 | |||
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Yeah I'd love to live forever, think of all the cool things you'd get to witness
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08-02-2018, 11:41 AM | #13 | ||
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Isn't this sort of the premise of the new Netflix thing "Altered Carbon"? I've not watched it yet but reading about it, it's basically about this thread concept, and what you've just mentioned here (multiple copies of your own consciousness in different bodies) is described as being "possible but highly illegal" .. but it's sort of known that some powerful people are doing it, but it's impossible to know who (the bodies themselves that the consciousness is put in are all different) .
I've been meaning to watch it and now I really want to. . |
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08-02-2018, 11:42 AM | #14 | |||
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I think I would. I'd actually really like to be cryogenically frozen basically I just want to see what the future is like rather than wanting to live forever. Experience space travel, more advanced technologies, stuff like that.
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08-02-2018, 11:44 AM | #15 | ||
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08-02-2018, 11:46 AM | #16 | |||
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08-02-2018, 11:47 AM | #17 | |||
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also if you were into a body that didn't need to breathe you could travel into space and under water with no restrictions
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08-02-2018, 11:49 AM | #18 | |||
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Is this Altered carbon? Sounds brilliant actually
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08-02-2018, 11:49 AM | #19 | |||
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I never even thought about that I was thinking there could be an overpopulation crisis but since we could live underwater and easily go to other planets, problem solved! (Unless we eventually started to overpopulate the universe )
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08-02-2018, 12:01 PM | #20 | |||
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Maybe it would be my robot who found the intelligent life in space after Elon Musk's robot sent me into space playing a loop of U2 I still haven't found what I'm looking for!
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08-02-2018, 12:05 PM | #21 | ||
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I cannot think of anything worse than living forever
She says while fantasizing about begin a vampire since being like 11
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08-02-2018, 12:07 PM | #22 | |||
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I never really got the whole romance thing about vampires. I mean its a corpse and it wants to drink your blood until you are dead too. What's to like?
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08-02-2018, 12:10 PM | #23 | |||
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I wonder if we'd even be able to understand the distant future, like would prehistoric man be able to understand current human life If the brain keeps evolving but our robot selves don't, we'd eventually see changes that we can't actually comprehend... I think that's the point at which I'd switch off
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08-02-2018, 12:12 PM | #24 | ||
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I am not exactly sure, to be quite honest. I always found the idea of someone who stayed 'alive' by drinking other peoples...life...fascinating. And the extra strength and such too. And I have always been nocturnal so that appealed also. And finally, I really do love the taste of blood I have only ever tasted my own though, no need to worry
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08-02-2018, 12:18 PM | #25 | |||
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But you are definitely not in a minority for liking vampires, shows and movies about them are hugely successful. I think I'm more in the minority for not finding them appealing!
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