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Most of the people I know with that view would be very happy with whole brain emulation, so it's not really about the meatbag. You sound like you think you res
by traverseda 7y ago
Most of the people I know with that view would be very happy with whole brain emulation, so it's not really about the meatbag.
You sound like you think you reside somewhere other than your "meatbag" when you die? Of course if that was true we wouldn't be nearly this uppity about the whole death thing.
- zepto 7y agoHow many whole brain emulations? If one is good, why not have many?
- amanaplanacanal 7y agoFinally I can have friends who think just like me.
- sleepytime4u 7y agoActually, I sincerely doubt that whole brain emulation does anything for anyone, beyond placating the surviving relatives of the deceased with perhaps a prosthetic biomechanoid placebo. Every individual that has ever uttered the words "upload my consciousness" doesn't even deserve the label, quack. Rube is more like it. With brain emulation, we'll likely encounter a degree of technological snakeoil to rival the "invigorating elixirs" of the nineteenth century. No, I don't buy the idea that human sentience is compatible with wired circuits that carry electric currents, or even photon-bearing fiber optics. Not even from the "Ship Of Theseus" perspective. My point is that death is essentially the big dreamless sleep, maybe with a magical time travel journey across geologic timescales to a future beyond the next supernova, when one might wake up in another part of the universe, beneath a different sun. I mean, really, who knows why any of us have disgorged our progeny beneath this one?