There Is No God

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

You guys are thinking about this wrong. You don't just dump yourself into a computer and then leave your original self standing there. As parts of your mind threaten to go, you augment it with an artificial mind. The biological you dies as it would over a decade or so and an artificial you is left. And it would be the same you.

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This might happen, but it isn't related to the singularity. You're talking about a scenario that augments what we currently are. Technically, under your scenario we change very little. We'd just live for much longer.

The singularity implies a high level of artificial intelligence and a society that is so advanced that we can't understand it. Being all Ghost in the shell, doesn't really fit that.

Yeah, the singularity thing refers to a point where machines become so intelligent that they are capable of building something slightly more intelligent. That keeps looping until they end up making something far beyond our comprehension.

Copying your mind into a computer is bullshit, the "real" you still dies. Slowly replacing parts of you, even down to individual brain cells, is something that happens naturally while still maintaining whatever it is that makes you you. If we could slowly migrate into artificial parts that would be RAD.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Copying your mind into a computer is bullshit, the "real" you still dies.

Slowly replacing parts of you, even down to individual brain cells, is something that happens naturally while still maintaining whatever it is that makes you you. If we could slowly migrate into artificial parts that would be RAD.

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Are these two ideas mutually exclusive? I submit that they are not.

Also I am now collecting Professor cards.

This thread is shaping up to be a great place to pick up cards.

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Originally Posted by Cheebs

I was clearly in error. This thread has proven that there is no God.

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Apology accepted.

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Originally Posted by Mzo

Slowly replacing parts of you, even down to individual brain cells, is something that happens naturally while still maintaining whatever it is that makes you you. If we could slowly migrate into artificial parts that would be RAD.

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We may or may not go in that direction though. Technology ultimately goes where the money is at, not where it logically should.

With everything going on with stem cells, we may figure out how to solve most of our mortality and health issues through genetics. Will there be any incentive for people to make nano machines that will repair your memory, if we can develop medicine or gene therapy that keeps your brain operating beyond its peek? Are you going to pay $5 a week for a prescription or $100,000 for the new nano memory bots?

And what do you think the average person will do? Everyone is already used to medicine and trust it. Maybe more than they should. Will people initially trust nano machines? And even if they do, who is to stop big med from trying to ruin those companies?

Bionic superdudes, that's who.