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TopicI'm going to die alone.
OhhhJa
10/12/18 6:41:00 PM
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wolfy42 posted...
The longer you live, the more you see that a persons memories and experiences are what defines them. As you get older, memories fade, and while some parts of your personality may remain, this is not always the case.

Often a person is a totally different person after 20 years, let alone 40 or 60 of them. You wouldn't even recognize a person by their personality, what they do, enjoy, how they act etc, if you knew them at 20 and then met them again at 60 (and didn't have physical characteristics to go on).

This means that once you can actually down load a human brain, all the experiences and memories, everything that you use to make decisions and to shape who you are, then you are in fact immortal. The main problem is that it's not much of a stretch to be able to alter such memories and experiences and it also removes any form of uniqueness between people as well.

You could shape a whole new conciousness this way, with memories and expeirences from many other people. So, if you don't believe in a soul, or any religious stuff outside of science, then yes, in the near future everyone could probably be immortal, there will be unlimited space for exploration and expanions (in VR) and in theory everyone could just inhabit robots at that point, needing only an energy source to survive....not only allowing expansion to the planets in our solar system, but to other solar systems as well.

All of that could easily happen before almost anyone on this board would die of old age at least, even me.

I agree with most of that except that there is validity to the point that PO makes about it just being a duplicate of you. I dont believe in a soul but I do believe that aside from you, as a person, being a collection of memories and experiences, you are also your brain. Without that, it would just be a duplicate of your brain.
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