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Bold assumption. I agree regarding the foreseeable future, though.
by rscho 1y ago
Bold assumption. I agree regarding the foreseeable future, though.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoIt's really not a bold assumption? Unless we can somehow bio engineer our bodies to heal without needing any external intervention, we're going to need surgery for healthcare purposes
- rscho 1y agoWell, it depends on your definition of 'surgery'. One could well imagine that transplanting your conscience into a new body might well be feasible before we get to live on Mars.
- doubled112 1y agoWhere does one find a new body ready for consciousness transplant? Would we grow them in farms like in the Matrix?
- bluefirebrand 1y agoI think growing a new body is going to be the easy part How do we separate a consciousness from one body and put it into another? What would that even mean?
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- bluefirebrand 1y agoI am not remotely convinced that "transplanting consciousness" is a thing that is even possible At best we may eventually be able to copy a consciousness, but that isn't the same thing
- SoftTalker 1y agoThat would make an interesting story plot. Suppose we've developed the ability to copy a consciousness. It has all your memories, all your feelings, your same sense of "self" or identity. If you die, you experience death, but the copy of your consciousness lives on, as a perfect replacement. Would that be immortality?
- bluefirebrand 1y agoI have thought about this quite a lot I don't think it is immortality. It is just cloning Any theoretical scheme that could let you exist at the same time as a clone of yourself means the clone is clearly not you. It's a different independent individual that only appears to be you
- rscho 1y agoAltered Carbon, Richard Morgan 2002. There's also a Netflix series.
- grantcas 1y ago[dead]
- BriggyDwiggs42 1y agoI don’t want to be too confident on something like this, but I feel like consciousness comes somehow from the material body (and surrounding world) in all its complexity, so transplanting consciousness absent transplant of physical material wouldn’t be possible in theory. This assumes it’s a consequence of the structure of things and not something separate, but I think that’s a reasonable guess.
- bluefirebrand 1y agoThe way I think of it is that consciousness is a side effect that arises from the complex circuitry of our brains I also don't want to be too confident, I'm not an expert on this. But I don't think consciousness is tied to any one physical component of our brains, it is something that only happens when the whole system is assembled This is why I don't think you can move consciousness. You can create a new identical brain, but that create a new consciousness. How do you transplant a side effect? It would be like saying "we can move the heat that this circuit is generating to this other circuit". Clearly you can't really