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Okay, probably not for me. I'm used to having a continuous stream of high-quality, high-definition sensations from my five senses coming in all the time.

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!

1 posted on 08/01/2012 4:49:23 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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that will be hell on earth.


2 posted on 08/01/2012 4:54:45 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Woe to them...)
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How much Immortality is it, if someone can just pull the plug?


3 posted on 08/01/2012 4:55:29 PM PDT by JCBreckenridge (Texas, Texas, Whisky)
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What a horrifying thought.
5 posted on 08/01/2012 4:58:21 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the collectivists.)
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Is the software opensource? Because if it's not opensource, I'm not interested.

/johnny

6 posted on 08/01/2012 5:02:11 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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Hmm. He wants rich donors...


7 posted on 08/01/2012 5:03:39 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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This may be the only way humanity will be able to explore space, to become more metal than flesh.


8 posted on 08/01/2012 5:03:50 PM PDT by Molon Labbie (Prep. Now. Live Healthy, take your Shooting Iron daily.)
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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.


9 posted on 08/01/2012 5:03:57 PM PDT by InterceptPoint (.)
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I’ll bet 50 kwatloos that it won’t work.


11 posted on 08/01/2012 5:04:37 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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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.


13 posted on 08/01/2012 5:09:42 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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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.


14 posted on 08/01/2012 5:11:48 PM PDT by rbg81
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“And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.”

—Hebrews 9:27


15 posted on 08/01/2012 5:13:34 PM PDT by .45 Long Colt
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...says the grandson of the great scientist Trofim Lysenko.


17 posted on 08/01/2012 5:17:43 PM PDT by EEGator
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At last, we learn the origin of Obama.


18 posted on 08/01/2012 5:17:50 PM PDT by FrankR (They will become our ultimate masters the day we surrender the 2nd Amendment.)
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Resistance is futile.


22 posted on 08/01/2012 5:48:09 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Election 2012 - America stands or falls. No more excuses. Get involved.)
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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.


24 posted on 08/01/2012 5:52:19 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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You are talking about the nonsensical ravings of a lunatic mind! Dead is dead!


25 posted on 08/01/2012 5:53:45 PM PDT by al baby (“If Barack Obama has a Harvard law degree, he didn’t earn that. Somebody else made that happen.”)
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Too late - it's already here. Isn't she from the Revolutionary War period??? Didn't she report on Washington crossing the Delaware? Said he didn't do that. It was the boat maker that made it happen?

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26 posted on 08/01/2012 5:56:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Ambition Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse")
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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.”


27 posted on 08/01/2012 6:01:50 PM PDT by unlearner (You will never come to know that which you do not know until you first know that you do not know it.)
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Now imagine it's Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reed and hussein obama.
28 posted on 08/01/2012 6:04:07 PM PDT by Caipirabob (I say we take off and Newt the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure...)
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“Human immortality could be possible by 2045, say Russian scientists”

Then a tyrant like Putin can be ruler forever.


29 posted on 08/01/2012 6:04:07 PM PDT by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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