RE: Is it possible to upload our minds into a computer or in engineered living tissue?
October 13, 2015 at 12:11 pm
(This post was last modified: October 13, 2015 at 12:17 pm by Whateverist.)
(October 13, 2015 at 11:53 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: Would the new copy have legal rights to your estate? I think not, so it not being you wouldn't matter, unless the copy were completely indistinguishable, body and brain.
For myself, I can imagine inheriting might be permissible. Of course, if I can leave my estate to my dog .. why not to a recreation of 'me' which is good enough for me?
I actually like the idea of moving beyond the could you/couldn't you part of the debate and consider what it would mean if you could. There would be repercussions for society if the Koch brothers are never separated from their fortune and they continue to accrue a larger and larger piece of the pie. I am not optimistic about the possibility of our species to improve politically in the way the Star Trek series assume.
The first question I wonder about if we accept that it eventually becomes mechanically possible is: would it be desirable? Part of the mind/self which we are considering extending has evolved for a mortal existence. How much drive would anyone feel to accomplish anything if it could just as easily wait another 800 years? Personally I don't burn for immortality. Would the world be a more interesting place if no or few new mortal humans were needed since those born with the choice chose to continue themselves instead?
