Posted on 11/17/2017 4:34:23 PM PST by No.6
Every day, it seems, our lives become a bit less tangible. We’ve grown accustomed to photos, music and movies as things that exist only in digital form. But death? Strange as it sounds, the human corpse could be the next physical object to vanish from our lives.
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There is an end to everything, no matter what one thinks or says.
Not sure I’d like to exist without a body. Your imagination just can replace physical senses. Currently I have more pleasureful than pain issues in my life.
Humans yearn for immortality, but Jesus said that there was only one way to attain it...and He, alone, is that way.
Horseshit.
Even if all of your thoughts, feelings, etc., could be transferred into a computer... it would still only be a computer into which data has been transferred. You would still be the person you are, and when you die, you would still be dead.
A kind of immorality to go along with immortality.
Yes, that’s my choice. Wouldn’t want to live forever on earth with or without a body.
“our consciousness will become intimately mingled with machine intelligence”
Absolute garbage, masked as wishful thinking.
God says this will come at some point. God will overpower it, but men will become unable to die at will.
Death isn’t final, regardless of technology.
Does anyone click on major network links, anymore..?
10,000 blinky, spinning things to load for slobbering poltroons, people better tuned to slot-machines or arcade games:
I simply never bother in the first place.
Another thing about idiot MSM websites:
They’re like a bear-trap or leg-humping dog —they will simply NOT LET GO.
You have to shut down stuff, click exit 100 times, it’s like leaving East Berlin.
I’m an Old Testament believer. God decides these things. Not man.
No, a resemblance of his consciousness and that of those like him until we biologicals smash his increasingly dangerous borg facility. Enhanced is acceptable as long as they arent networked and still have biological brains, we are really are at that point today. What he refers to isnt immortal life at all. It isnt even life at that point. To be immortal on earth would require a manner to infinitely regenerate a healthy brain or somehow biologically make a backup brain by stimulating growth of a second one.
I’ll pass on living on this rock forever.
Especially with all the defects I have lived with since the beginning that no one I’m related to has.
I did hear an interesting theory about the virtual continuation of life, sort of. It requires AI with a vast amount of memory, and some means of recording a person for the last 5-10 years of their “sensible” life.
You figure out of a day, about 1/3rd to 1/2 or more is spent on things like sleeping, eating, hygiene, traveling, etc.
But a big chunk of the rest is spent on boring routines and rehashing of the ordinary.
What is interesting is their learning of new things which they adapt to their worldview, the telling of stories and anecdotes and opinions, and their sharing of expertise, common experience and their solicitations of the experience and opinions of others.
5-10 years of these things, carefully woven together, and a virtual person would be much like a living person.
Of course it would take many years to perfect such a system, and it would never have the spark of life, of awareness or soul.
Helen Lane, she lives forever, no???
Only her cancer cells. If I sequence my DNA and store it in the cloud, do I live forever?
Paging ... L. Ron Hubbard.
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