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A faithful simulation of your brain would still find fun whatever you find fun. If I enjoy reading tech articles and programming, then I'd still enjoy that if i
by MinusGix 6y ago
A faithful simulation of your brain would still find fun whatever you find fun. If I enjoy reading tech articles and programming, then I'd still enjoy that if it was a faithful simulation. For social behaviors, presumably you'd be able to interact outside and/or with other simulated people.
For physical activity, you would lose that, which would be unpleasant. Though, hopefully you'd be able to make some form of physical simulation that is controlled by the brain even if it can't match reality perfectly.
For sensations like taste, air temperature, and smell, well.. while those can be enjoyable/unpleasant it is not that enjoyable.
So, you'd do just as you always have? If we don't have any form of physical simulation within it then you do lose some activities, which is unfortunate.
I'm curious why you think what gives our life meaning and joy is tied to our physical bodies? Like, the most enjoyable aspects in life for me are things that I could do from a ''mental'' textbox. There are certainly things I would miss, but hopefully simulation-esque aspects of that would also pop-up as time goes on.
- peteradio 6y agoSuppose you created a faithful simulation of yourself, surely that's not you and any pleasure or pain it experiences has no effect on you. So what exactly is the point?
- landryraccoon 6y agoIf you have children, surely they aren’t you and any pleasure or pain they experience has no effect on you. So what exactly is the point?
- sosborn 6y ago> surely that's not you What difference would that make to the simulation?
- MinusGix 6y agoThe comment by me that you are replying to is more about the feeling from within the computer, rather than the case of copying where you are the physical version. In the case of copying, I am in a potentially small group of people that would willingly create a copy of myself to be uploaded to a computer. Assuming it is non-destructive, then there would be two 'me's around. The physical one that has continuity, and the computer. After whatever brain-scanning this is, and I wake up as the physical version rather than the digital, I would likely be disappointed as the digital arrives closer to accomplishing the goal of immortality. Yet, I would also be glad that a version of me gets to live on. Even if it is no longer the me on the physical side, it was still a me at the time of copying. It is giving a version of yourself chances that you may not get (immortality, whatever crazy experiences one can get when your brain is simulated, etc).