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Pirato

Post subject: Immortality soon to be reality?

Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:12 am

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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/ ... 35,00.html

According to this scientist, in about 45 years it will be possible to upload people's mind and thoughts into a computer so that they will be able to live on in cyber space after their death.
Discuss.

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Matti

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:26 am

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"We can already use DNA, for example, to make electronic circuits so it's possible to think of a smart yoghurt some time after 2020 or 2025, where the yoghurt has got a whole stack of electronics in every single bacterium. You could have a conversation with your strawberry yogurt before you eat it."

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Iolanthe

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:45 am

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Hi, call me "crazy," but I don't really want my yogurt to wish me a good morning before I consume it. Also, I'm slightly narrowminded and I don't think we'll see this happening irl anytime soon.

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Kametatsu

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:52 am

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I don't like it one bit.

Sure, maybe our mind and conciousness and whatnot might live on forever in cyberspace, but those are merely components of what makes us who we are, and not the entire package. What we end up with is preserving a shell of what we are, and not keeping the true self alive forever.

While this is interesting, I have troubles believing it could actually happen, and quite frankly, I hope it doesn't happen.

And yeah, I don't want to talk to my strawberry yogurt just before eating it either.

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Mythrandir

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 11:23 am

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If I see the Microsoft logo anywhere on the mind upload machine I'm not doing it. Death > BSoD in the brain.

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Caduceus

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 12:10 pm

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Location: Seattle

Holy shit, Lain irl

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The new PlayStation is 1 per cent as powerful as a human brain,' he said.

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He continued: 'It would definitely have emotions - that's one of the primary reasons for doing it. If I'm on an aeroplane I want the computer to be more terrified of crashing than I am so it does everything to stay in the air until it's supposed to be on the ground.

They're some scary sentences in that article, very exciting stuff.

Seriously though, the concept of converting concious to an electrical medium is terrifyingly awesome.

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pyromancer

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:26 pm

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wasnt that on friends?????

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arlania

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 1:36 pm

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omg cyborgs!

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Tsusuwusu

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:02 pm

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Id hate to live forever

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Parade

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:03 pm

Mike&Ike Irl

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Location: The Internet

yaw it makes a good movie, but not IRL

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Reinheld

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 2:42 pm

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REPLICANTS OMG NONE OF YOU HAVE SEEN BLADE RUNNER I HATE YOU

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Parade

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:05 pm

Mike&Ike Irl

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Reinheld wrote:

REPLICANTS OMG NONE OF YOU HAVE SEEN BLADE RUNNER I HATE YOU

i have the font on my computer but thats about it.

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Arim

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:15 pm

Spammer, to the max!

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Ghost in the shell <3

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Kioto

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:27 pm

Posts way too much

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I wouldnt wanna piss off the airplane virtual sentiment.

And i doubt i'd fly any asian planes. Or any middle east planes.

They might just be on allah's side...

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Devrim27

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 5:47 pm

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Location: Long Island

I'd rather die then be part of this cyber shit. I'm fine with the stage computers are at right now, but this is too far. It goes against my religion and i'm sure it's the same with most of you. When it's your time to die, it's your time.

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Valenia

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:07 pm

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Arim wrote:

Ghost in the shell <3

Exactly what I was thinking

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Hale

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 8:13 pm

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I saw bladerunnner! All the cans were labeled "FOOD" and "DRINK" and the guy flies in a car at the end, that's all I remember. But anyways, this immortality stuff doesn't concern me since I'm already half robot.

Okay, I was just too lazy to click the link. Whatever

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Xiona

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:05 pm

Youre a Crappy HNM like Roc or something

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honestly i can see this being good for space travel.

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Sefier

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:20 pm

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Devrim27 wrote:

unless..gods a computer TN TN TNNN!N! (scary music here)

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Purity

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Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 10:37 pm

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I'd become too attached to my talking Yogurt to eat it =/

And if our mind can live on in computers, could I hack into whatever systems I wanted and live there? =D
Pentagon computers, HERE MY MIND COMES!

*Tries to jam head into USB port*

JESUS CHRIST THAT HURT!

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