Is it possible to upload our minds into a computer or in engineered living tissue?

[Whateverist]

[ignoramus]

What do you think Mark?
Can/will it be accomplished before the sun goes down, permanently?

My mind would be easy, you'd fit it on a 3.5 inch floppy! 1.44MB (double sided of course! I'm not THAT dumb!)

[Whateverist]

Hah hah. My beliefs on this subject very nearly mirror those regarding traditional notions of afterlife: don't think so/ don't care.

[ignoramus]

I'd hate to know what Walt's electricity bill is going to be!




Everyone know the only way to do it properly is by using carbonite! It's the element next to Kryptonite on the alternate idiodic table of the elements.

[Iroscato]

But this doesn't address the issue (though I did skim-read) of the upload being nothing but a copy. Sure, if it worked, another you could carry on living your life as normal, and be none the wiser - but it wouldn't be you.

[houseofcantor]

Hah hah.  My beliefs on this subject very nearly mirror those regarding traditional notions of afterlife: don't think so/ don't care.

So why make a thread about it? 

[Ben Davis]

*predicts stages of this thread

1. The neurologists will say "Yes, it's technically plausible that one day the technology could exist..."
2. The philosophers will ask "Ahh, yes... but would it still be You?!".
3. The materialists will say "No, it wouldn't be You as You would have ceased to exist. Instead it would be You2.".
4. The technologists will say "We could program You2 to think it's you and behave as if there's been no discontinuity between existences.".
5. The dualists will say "Yes, it would be You as it would replicate the mechanism through which You interact with this reality."
6. The pragmatists will say "This is all redundant speculation."
7. A certain someone will chime-in "Why would our consciousness die when as we can see in nature nothing die?
8. Someone will throw something
9. A moderator will say "Stop that now, you two!"
10. People will stop reading and the thread will die.
11. Someone will create an exact copy of the thread, post it without the deletion of the original thread and use it as evidence of the accuracy of prediction 3.

[Ravenshire]

But this doesn't address the issue (though I did skim-read) of the upload being nothing but a copy. Sure, if it worked, another you could carry on living your life as normal, and be none the wiser - but it wouldn't be you.

If I were none the wiser, why would I care that it's not really "me?"

[I_am_not_mafia]

But this doesn't address the issue (though I did skim-read) of the upload being nothing but a copy. Sure, if it worked, another you could carry on living your life as normal, and be none the wiser - but it wouldn't be you.

If I were none the wiser, why would I care that it's not really "me?"

You wouldn't care because you'd be dead.

[Iroscato]

But this doesn't address the issue (though I did skim-read) of the upload being nothing but a copy. Sure, if it worked, another you could carry on living your life as normal, and be none the wiser - but it wouldn't be you.

If I were none the wiser, why would I care that it's not really "me?"

You ever seen TNG: Second Chances?