I'm used to breathing; in fact, I need to breathe, and feel all the satisfying sensations that go along with it. Like knowing I am, in fact, alive, and I'm not some zombie. So you see, if I don't constantly feel my lungs taking big satisfying gulps of fresh air all the time, it's going to be very uncomfortable. I might even panic.
Then, as a cybernetic avatar, you're trapped inside a metal box and can't get out of it. Like being in a coffin, six feet under.
And you can't breathe.
Holy claustrophobia!
Then, too, you've got this 110 volt current of electricity surging every which way through your cybernetic body. That's gotta be something new that you may never get used to. Like some people can never get over sea sickness while out at sea... So no thank you!
that will be hell on earth.
How much Immortality is it, if someone can just pull the plug?
/johnny
Hmm. He wants rich donors...
This may be the only way humanity will be able to explore space, to become more metal than flesh.
Map my brain to a 2045 era computer and hook it up to a holographic image of me when I was young and slim.
Then shoot the real me.
Do I live on as that avatar?
I don’t think so.
I think I’m dead. You may be able to transfer all the knowledge and history in my brain to a future computer, but transfer my consciousnesses to a machine. Methinks not.
I’ll bet 50 kwatloos that it won’t work.
So you have all your memories transferred into a robot. Big deal. You will still die.
I’m not sure I’m so egotistical that I want every one of my memories preserved forever.
Somehow, I doubt they’ll ever be able to accurately transfer a person’s consciousness, memory, and soul into a machine. They’ll leave plenty out. At best, it will be like a very flawed simulation of the original.
I’d also be concerned about the developers taking creative (or ideological) license and reprogramming things like memories, values, and morals.
“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”
—Hebrews 9:27
...says the grandson of the great scientist Trofim Lysenko.
At last, we learn the origin of Obama.
Resistance is futile.
This is along the lines of the group looking for the inception of the “singularity”, where humanity and machines merge. Making our own hell is what it appears to me.
You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind! Dead is dead!
Ray Kurzweil has been arguing this line for many years and has some fairly persuasive arguments to back it up.
Unfortunately for mankind there is a non-scientific reason we die. It is because God said we would after man sinned. Man cannot save himself from this judgment.
Fortunately salvation from death can come by trusting Christ Jesus as Lord and Savior. This is the only way out, and to try some other way is to accept the first lie: “You shall not surely die.”
“Human immortality could be possible by 2045, say Russian scientists”
Then a tyrant like Putin can be ruler forever.