Are we trapped in our material body?
Even if we invented a way for us to copy our consciousness in digital form or in another body is there a way for us to experience that transition or are we bound to our bodies?
Are we trapped in our material body?
Brayden Russell
Xavier Davis
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Owen Clark
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Jacob Cruz
I was going to engage in learned discourse regarding this question, but I just noticed the sex robots thread.
Aaron Price
>>/b/
Easton Lee
Your consciousness is dependent n your physiology.
A transfer wouldn't be you, it'd be a copy of you.
>unless you underwent a gradual process that gradually replaced your body and brain with robotic parts with uploadable consciousness
Noah Sanders
>A transfer wouldn't be you, it'd be a copy of you.
I have read this countless times in countless locations, but I'm not convinced.
If the copy of you really thinks it is you, and remembers everything you do up to the moment of copying, what is the difference?
Maybe I'm just existentialist like that, but two people who share the exact same set of memories are indistinguishable to that point.
What happens after the copying is interesting, and the "original" may claim some uniqueness by being in possession of the original physical body, but with a sufficiently identical physical body, this distinction would also break down.
Also, this is not really a Veeky Forums question, but I do like the exercise.
Carson Torres
You will essentially die. A computer copy of your brainwaves will carry on, telling everyone it's still the real you.
Meanwhile, the user I'm talking to right now, will be dead.
Think of it like this, it's like you agreeing to kill yourself now because they just made a stronger, smarter, sexier clone of you to take your place.
Ryder Miller
I get the "original" me will be dead. I feel quite okay with this, so maybe it's my own incomprehension at how troubling this seems to be for others.
Especially if the "new" me has the other perks listed, leading to effective consciousness immortality, if not the typically physical kind.
Cooper Diaz
The difference is that it's not the original.
So you, as in you now, would not be them (the copy).
Therefore, you would still be you.
The only way you could transfer your shit, is if you had completed a download of your shit into other stuff.
shit=consciousness