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Deep Thought at 11pm
Do you think it's possbile that we'll one day be able to create an electronic brain that you can download your personality on to that will outlive your human self?
Do you think it's possbile that we'll one day be able to create an electronic brain that you can download your personality on to that will outlive your human self?
and also
Will there ever be a boy born who can swim faster than a Shark?
not really personality no
Well I am a downloaded brain
so screw you guys!
that's something you will never do again
Brain Boy
ok, i'll get the poppers
yes
considering how far we've come already
yeah
i mean, just look at me! the body i inhabited died a long time ago, but most of my personality is still stored in various places on the interweb, creating a digital me
ok, it has a limited vocabulary, a purely sarcastic sense of humour and a general inability to convey anything without profanities and insults. But thats pretty close to my original human form anyway
the future truly is bright
Didn't Ross say this
on an episode of friends :|
HAHAH
Yeah, he did. He totally did.
Brilliant.
Simple answer.
I reckon yes, as chemichally our brains are semi equivalent to ones and zeros. Its less the data transfer aspect than the neuronal mapping side of things I reckon, as the interactions between various data sets are what makes the brain so unique.
Did you ever see Strange Days?
That was a film
he means in real life.
Bless you...
yes absolutely
whether it is actually feasible is a different matter. I don't understand people who object to this kind of thinking. It is as if they believe in some sort of soul or something, the bells.
i don't know where i stand on the soul
but i cannot believe that you can download a brain including all the personal differences between one another into a machine. look at what happened with cyber men, the one that maintained any emotions cried oil, that doesn't sound fun!
I admire your attempt to base your beliefs on Dr Who
I do the same.
^5
Dr who is actually the greatest thing on tele ever
I think I agree
it's definitely the single best idea for a TV programme ever
not for a very long time
im pretty sure that consciousness is still a big mystery to science
it doesn't exist
so said one of my tutors at university
you can certainly argue that people get too bogged down in what consciousness means and that it is fundamentally irrelevant