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The way you re-used essence in quotes makes me think maybe you interpreted my post as meaning a metaphysical soul or something along those lines. That was not
by bigtunacan 8y ago
The way you re-used essence in quotes makes me think maybe you interpreted my post as meaning a metaphysical soul or something along those lines. That was not at all what I was going for.
Simply taking a brain out of a body and then "keeping it on life support" would be horrendous. Think of it, your brain is very much alive with zero stimulation for a theoretical eternity. That would likely drive people insane.
My point was if the technology became sufficiently advanced that we could say wire the brain into an artificial body where we could still see, communicate, maybe even feel pain and pleasure.
Think of the numerous people with severe physical handicaps who might actually find something like this to be an improvement over their current living situation.
- rubber_duck 8y agoNot necessarily metaphysical - I get a feeling a lot of these discussions treat brain and body as separate entities and the reasoning reduces to the same as metaphysical ghost in the machine - brain in the machine. If we ever get to that point you're almost a completely different entity from the person you were in your body, you could share some of the memories and logic but even your perception on them would change drastically along with your self image changes.
- bigtunacan 8y agoSince it is "my brain", I would think that I would have all of my memories which is largely what makes up me. I really don't see how then I would be a completely different entity. It would just be me, but in a better body in my case. As someone who suffers from a degenerative disease that causes chronic pain which only continues to get worse over time I would welcome transplanting my brain into an android-like body where I could continue to live, albeit without the suffering.