Would You Be Downloading On Your Death Bed?

[Pyrodrew]

Originally posted by Lancer
"Would You Be Downloading On Your Death Bed? "

Uploading actually.

Ummm... I didn't want to contradict the title of the article.

I'm trying to figure out how to upload my brain and then download it into a lesbian.

Self-inflicted multiple orgasms

[Dis]

I can just see my brain being hacked and having some 14 year old kid feed me gay porn. Or series of goatse or tubgirl pictures.

no thanks.

[SlowwHand]

I didn't read all the replies, but given the overwhelming grey matter that exists here, I know someone brought it up, and so will only concur; the thought of, say, an airplane, having a truly depressing day, and feeling the need to end it all is, well, it's distressing, to say the least.

Where does it end?
Driving to some destination in what you assumed was a well-balanced vehicle, only to find that it had severe emotional crisis in the works.
So you commute by public transportation instead.
Now, I don't know, but to me, if I was vehicle of transport, and a mass transit at that, carrying all that gross tonnage back and forth with little change, I believe I'd lose it.

What's the answer? Where do we do from here?

We haven't even discussed cash registers. ATM's, banking facility drive-throughs, for instance.

Bad deal.

[Immortal Wombat]

Giving computer's emotions is stupid. As for uploading myself, I don't see an awful lot of point. It's not like you could do much except sit around and read the internet. It would be like the whole of existence suddenly became LiveJournal - just disembodied consciousnesses exchanging facile pleasantries for ever. I think maybe I'd upload myself just to see what it was like, find my prediction dissapointingly accurate, and request deletion. Although possibly only once the courts had decided the legality of deleting someone's personality at their own request.

[General Ludd]

Wouldn't you want to be uploading? Kinda mean, downloading someone else's consciousness into your mind just as you're about to die.


But to answer your question; yes, I would download. Serves the bugger right for thinking he can escape death.

[Starchild]

Originally posted by Shi Huangdi
Sounds like BS.

And besides, even if your brain could be downloaded onto a computer, I don't think it would be the same thing at all. It wouldn't be you, just a copy of your brain that is now on your computer.

For all I know, every night I die in my sleep and God loads a copy of my personality into my head before morning. If I'm a copy but I feel like me, can trace a direct line of continuation to me, and am only available me around, for all intents and purposes, I am me.

[JohnT]

Hell ya, I'd do it.

What have you got to lose? Your life?

[Immortal Wombat]

Your death.

[JohnT]

No big loss, then.

[Starchild]

The first death is always the hardest. After a while you kinda stop noticing.

[Immortal Wombat]

Originally posted by JohnT
No big loss, then.

You ever tried living forever? Huh? You mortals are all the same. You'll be pleading for death within the first thousand years.

[:) Smiley]

Now it's science fiction, when this becomes close to happening, it's gonna make stem cells and evolution look like a walk in the park.

[Shogun Gunner]

Originally posted by Starchild


For all I know, every night I die in my sleep and God loads a copy of my personality into my head before morning. If I'm a copy but I feel like me, can trace a direct line of continuation to me, and am only available me around, for all intents and purposes, I am me.

whoa....

I won't be able to fall asleep tonight.

[Ted Striker]

Originally posted by Dissident
I can just see my brain being hacked and having some 14 year old kid feed me gay porn. Or series of goatse or tubgirl pictures.

no thanks.

I didn't think of that.