northportage

I don't believe for a second that such a transfer could ever capture the actual consciousness - that first-person experience all us non-NPCs experience.

But even if it could, hypothetically as a thought experiment, what are the risks it won't be a proper consciousness, but some kind of disembodied hell that feels like an unending bad acid trip you can't escape? I wouldn't take the chance.

TwitterBannedIt

^this.

As a rather nerdy fellow, the subject does entertain me a great deal, however, I'm not likely to sign up for beta tests ;)

Primarily because I do not see the technological connection, I am familiar with the brain, mind, programming and electronics, familiar with the various subsystems, though admittedly no scholar, I find that no explanation of fact is ever explained for several new and old "tech" notions. Here, it is the consciousness, even if you made an exact duplicate of a behavioral pattern, does not equate to the personal feeling of being "transferred" to a new vessel, there is no reason to even expect it. We are being sold magic.

You'd at the very least need a complete physical brain in the exact same physical state as the original, even if then you COPIED or entrained the target brain to perfectly match the electrical, chemical and mechanical state of the original, and a perfect, conscious copy was created... The original person is still there, alive, awake... Copying does not move, no transfer has occurred. Even surmounting this by finding some ingenius way to physically move the same electrons of the original pattern into the same pattern on the target brain, leaving the donor lifeless, there is no way to forecast whether this would actually effect the desired outcome of transferring a single, unique and aware consciousness to a biologically separate vessel.

BanksnoThanks

It's simple... a copy is just a copy not the original. Maybe this would be nice for ppl that are outliving you. A way for them to still experience your presence. But you, the original will die just as nature intended. There is no way to know what happens to your actual consciousness or soul. But I believe there is no way to extract it and implant it. We still have very little understanding as to what consciousness is and how it is created or what it is made of. It's a fascinating subject that I would love for there to be more research on.

TwitterBannedIt

I should have read to the bottom before posting, get out of my head lol.

dudelol

Still i would never do this.

MIDefender

This is just ridiculous. It is a lie from hell!

ThirteenthZodiac

Look up the Ship of Theseus problem.

Then look into something called the "continuity of consciousness."

If you're a Cartesian dualist, the notion of "downloading" your soul, or even putting it somewhere else, is going to be absurd. Noumenal - or metaphysical - entities don't really work that way.

dudelol

Well this is my presupposition.

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:

28 So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.

Everyone dies once, then we are all raised again for judgement, so living forever here is a bad idea and a larp