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Let's create an eternal blissful life through science
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RE: Let's create an eternal blissful life through science
(October 12, 2015 at 2:02 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(October 12, 2015 at 1:34 pm)Aoi Magi Wrote: Right now it's impossible, in future however, something similar might be possible. Our brain is pretty much a biological harddisk where all our data resides, and experiments are already on their way on how to read and retrieve that data. So I don't think it's too implausible to imagine a future where we can keep ourselves backed-up on physical mediums and restore that to a new body when needed. So resurrection could be possible in a way.

Two things.  First, I don't see any reason to believe that one is simply one's data, or that one is a biological hard disk.  It seems to me that one is the machine.  You are not just the particular thoughts you have; you are also the way you think about those thoughts.

Second, even if I were wrong about the first point, the data extraction is going to be practically impossible, which Vorlon13 explains well enough in an earlier post.

So I am confident that it will never be possible.
Hmm, I cannot agree or disagree on that first point. But I will give that we are not just data, but the algorithm that processes that data and gathers further data is important too.

On the second point, I don't understand why we would need so much energy. Think of making a backup of your harddisk, you are not monitoring every molecule in your hdd in order to copy the data, are you? Our brain is already capable of working on all the data it stores and send messages via nerves, so maybe we can use the brain itself to process the data/memories and send it to a medium as signals we can intercept and store?
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RE: Let's create an eternal blissful life through science - by Aoi Magi - October 12, 2015 at 3:07 pm

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