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Immortality

Do you think it would be possible to achieve immortality, i.e. by transitioning your brain to a computer, then live forever as a machine or even transitioning your consciousness to a different body. Do you think this is feasible in the future, if so when?

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Salesforce op Jun 11, 2019

Read books by Yuval Noah Harari (Homo Deus, Sapiens)

Uber barnacles. Jun 11, 2019

Why would I want to live without eating and having sex ?

Apple CodeMonkšŸ’ Jun 11, 2019

You can do these w/ pixels.

Uber barnacles. Jun 11, 2019

There is no mention of a display. It could be a Linux OS with just a remote console access

Apple PTSE75 Jun 11, 2019

The best part about this post is: ā€œif so, when?ā€

Carta sitbiscuit Jun 11, 2019

Entropy is inevitable so nothing can last forever

Arthrex quarks Jun 11, 2019

And I'm iron man šŸ˜

Clover Health sses Jun 11, 2019

The brain itself is just a biological device driven by electricity.

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Apple PTSE75 Jun 11, 2019

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eBay PR0FCH@0$ Jun 11, 2019

What?

Amazon Waze Jun 11, 2019

Nothing can last forever.

Amazon Waze Jun 11, 2019

If you can transfer your "consciousness" to a computer, then what happens when you make a duplicate and run them in parallel? Which one is you?

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Hoik Jun 11, 2019

What's not to say that a clone of you is rampaging in a parallel world already or better yet in amazon from another country?

Google __human__ Jun 11, 2019

It's very likely that we will build something that to the new host is completely indistinguishable from a continuous line of consciousness from the previous form, but that doesn't actually continue the previous form's (your) consciousness, so is indistinguishable to you from normal death, but that fact would not be observable externally, and would be contradicted by the new host that has every indication that they've had a continuous conscious experience across hosts.