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Comment on The Problem of Continuity of Conciousness by Optimistic Cynic

Optimistic Cynic — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:18:05 +0000

I like continuity of consciousness. If my consciousness could be transferred to an artificial brain, and especially if I could be aware of both my birth and artificial brain at the same time, but then later the body is stored via cryogenics until it can be restored (while my consciousness is in an artificial brain, or voluntarily dormant, like sleep) , that seems pretty good to me.

My consciousness simply moved around.

Also if I’m merely revived from a cryogenic state, and my consciousness is intact…that seems a little iffy, but not too bad. It is you, but you were dormant for a while.

Someone making a copy of me later seems pretty much useless to me. If you make an exact duplicate of me RIGHT NOW, and it lives on the other side of the world, and I never here of it again…how is that helping me?

I don’t understand people who get excited over cloning. Some woman cloned a dog and acted like they brought her dog back to life, and it knew her and it was the same dog. Ugh.
If there were ten genetic duplicates of me at birth, and they all go to different, unassociated lives in different places…you just have ten different people who have nothing to do with each other, except they have the same DNA. Right? They’re not me, they just have the same DNA code.

Comment on “Hi there, I’m a transhumanist” by trent

trent — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:11:08 +0000

Nice. I was looking for a new tattoo idea.

Comment on BBC – Human 2.0 : creeeeeepy! by gabriel

gabriel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:58:40 +0000

here’s a documentary from bbc called ”visions of the future”
It’s presented by Michio Kaku and is almost entirely about stuff you’ve probably come across before but enjoyable all the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW1TNkQfNng&feature=related

Comment on “Hi there, I’m a transhumanist” by gabriel

gabriel — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:46:01 +0000

Well i’ll have a picture for you this time next week at latest. This is an excellent idea.

Comment on The Problem of Continuity of Conciousness by Ryan O`Doherty

Ryan O`Doherty — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 22:56:02 +0000

That`s probably the best solution I`ve read about regarding the uploading of our mind`s.

Comment on “Hi there, I’m a transhumanist” by angry-monk

angry-monk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:45:21 +0000

No problem… glad you liked the idea! Would love to see yours if you get one. Might even make a gallery collection if enough people do.

Comment on “Hi there, I’m a transhumanist” by .: I R Dan :.

.: I R Dan :. — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:37:35 +0000

Thank you, i was searching for a tech tattoo, when i found this page.
Not only is the concept very appealing, but you have helped me find transhumanity and with it many others that share my views for an evolving world. I will join you and your tattoo.

( cant wait for v1.1 )

Dan

Comment on Captain’s Log… by angry-monk

angry-monk — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:51:53 +0000

Scientists have “teleported” electrons across a lab already… using a particularly weird feature of quantum mechanics called “quantum entanglement” but they are (I would say) a metric assload of a long way off doing that to anything on the macro scale.

Many scientists think it won’t ever me possible… But I am reminded of a quote by James A. Baldwin…

“Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.”

So I’ll keep my mouth shut.

There is an article about quantum teleportation on wikipedia here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_teleportation

Which gives you a heads up as to where the current tech is.

Comment on Captain’s Log… by FourEleven

FourEleven — Fri, 09 May 2008 02:42:10 +0000

I can imagine the Religious Right having a field trip with “Dance monkeys dance!” Agreed: the video is humbling, but also presses all the right buttons. We’ve come far, but we’ve got a helluva long way to go.

On the topic of Captain Kirk: what are the actual possibilities of teleportation and being beamed up (by Scotty or anyone else) in the future? I remember an 11-year old kid on “Kid Nation” talking about. It was great! (though the show necessarily wasn’t)

Comment on It’s only a fleshwound! by angry-monk

angry-monk — Thu, 08 May 2008 08:29:23 +0000

Tis ok. You have something for long enough, you forget you have it.

I agree that the humanitarian issue is a big one when considering things like this that have the potential to help, for example, the millions of people in poorer nations crippled by land mines. But I offer as hope and an offset that usually after a company has recouped it’s R&D costs and lose their exclusivity of patent after a number of years there is usually almost immediately a gamut of generic and low cost competitors that bring the medicine/procedure to the masses (look at paracetamol and Neurofin). SO it may be delayed but I don’t think it will ever be long lastingly denied anyone. It’s just a case of how long we delay.

Especially with a fairly straightforward technique like this that is also being developed at a university and not in the R&D dept. of a big pharm.