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Immortality May Be Possible in about 13 years?
- Thread starter The Sum of Awe
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freethinker44
Well-Known Member
I would totally do that.
Rainbow Mage
Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
I've wondered about it myself
apophenia
Well-Known Member
Great. An eternity of software updates, viruses and worms, obsolete drivers and users who want to crash in your storage space for a few days ...
Plus you will probably be incorporated into a cheesy game against your will.
In other words, more of the same.
As for ...
... anyone who has been following the claims and timetables of the Artificial Intelligentsia for the last 40 years knows that we are dealing with hyperbole about vaporware. There is no reason at all to believe that this scenario is any more possible than hiding Jupiter in your ***.
Plus you will probably be incorporated into a cheesy game against your will.
In other words, more of the same.
As for ...
... anyone who has been following the claims and timetables of the Artificial Intelligentsia for the last 40 years knows that we are dealing with hyperbole about vaporware. There is no reason at all to believe that this scenario is any more possible than hiding Jupiter in your ***.
I would not want a robotic body let alone a holographic one, how would i feel anything and even if such things could be replicated how do we know that the process itself wouldn't actually kill me, leaving behind only a very close duplicate that is not actually me. I think if we are to acheive immortality it should be through the preservation of our physical bodies, not replacing them with machines or insubstantial energy.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
xD, I think that they would do it near the person's death anyways, correct?
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
I would do it right now if the technology existed.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Haha, I can imagine it now:
"Electronic revival of the consciousness?
... *slight pause*
Well. We've got an ap for that."
-cloud starts cheering-
I wouldn't even dream of pursuing immortality before establishing solid solutions to the current social problems and establishing a non-growing population.
Worldwide.
Worldwide.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Why is that? I can see why someone would want to do it near the time of death, but it'd be a lot less exciting to not be able to feel without encoding and seeing without a camera etc not being able to take a bath
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Machines can be given more senses than our bodies have now and much improved over our current senses. The eye is a camera. Imagine if you had a camera that could perceive the whole spectrum instead of a small band and if you could see every possible color instead of just three, and was never out of focus. If I was a machine I wouldn't need a bath.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
True, I don't know, I'd just miss my "original" body I guess.
The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
But then again, if it means that I could upgrade myself into a Transformer or Dr. Doom with a lot of money, I am DOWN FOR DAT!
YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
Agreed. It sounds nice, but it is just not going to happen. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone would want to live forever, especially in a fake reality. Wahoo, eh?
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Not me. No pain, no fatigue, no sleep, no hunger... I would do it without hesitation.
Twilight Hue
Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Dave? ....... What are you doing Dave?
freethinker44
Well-Known Member
Forget transformers or Dr. Doom, you upload yourself on the internet and the entire world can be your body.
Or upload to some kind of space ship and explore the galaxy for eternity.
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The Sum of Awe
Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Agreed. It sounds nice, but it is just not going to happen. Frankly, I don't understand why anyone would want to live forever, especially in a fake reality. Wahoo, eh?
Because it's not literally forever, and it's not exactly fake
Sha'irullah
رسول الآلهة
This man is just 1 lab accident away from being a super villain.