(February 21, 2021 at 7:47 pm)John 6IX Breezy Wrote:(February 21, 2021 at 7:12 pm)Brian37 Wrote: HELLO MCFLY, try smashing your computer into a million pieces then try to turn it back on.
Your arguments are based on difficulty not possibility. There is a New Yorker article on hypothermia and gunshot wounds that makes an interesting point: injuries that by themselves are fixable, often lead to death because their cumulative effect surpasses our limited supply of time and resources. The article makes the case that hypothermia loosens the time constraint before death occurs, making a difficult task manageable and successful.
You are opting for scenarios in which brains and computers are blown to a billion bits because it appears difficult to repair. However, a scenario in which only one nerve or one transistor is damaged appears manageable. If you can fix one transistor you can fix a million of them, the rest is just a numbers game.
No. My arguments are based on science.
There is a window of time that can be argued for coming out of a brain health event, and doctors, neurologists are always trying to see if they can extend that window to avoid irreversible damage to the brain, but there still is a window to greater of lesser degrees.
Again, it still amounts to damage. My late mother did not jump out of her coffin at the funeral home. There always will be a beyond repair death for everyone eventually. The human body does not last forever. Sometimes life can be extended sure, and new technology/science seeks to do just that.
You really simply need to stop trying to separate consciousness from the brain. You really are nothing more than your brain in motion. But even if sometimes you can repair it, it will still eventually wear out completely beyond repair. At that point you are dead, you won't feel anything just like you had no consciousness before you were born 100 years ago.
There is no "forever" for any form of life. This planet will suffer a few more mass extinction events before the sun expands and kills all life on this planet. By that time, humans are extremely likely to be gone as a species before that happens.
