Philosophy - March 2007

a company is working on the technology to download the information from a human brain. ....after this they could repair the damaged brain and then download the information back or they could download the information into a cloned brain.

obviously if the information from your brain was downloaded and then put into a clone of you that person would not have YOUR conciousness. it would be and think just like you but there woudl be two conciousnesses. so the idea of living forever based on this doesnt really work because YOU are actually dying and its only a copy of you that is living. right?

now if that info is downloaded, your current brain is repaired, and then it is downloaded back into your own brain.... is that you? or is it another conciousness seperate from who YOU are?

because the goal here is to prolong YOUR conciousness not just memories. your memories arent youre life, youre conciousness is. and so by downloading the info on your brain and then repairing it wouldnt

2007-03-03 11:54:33 · 26 answers · asked by sean_mchugh6 3

My lights will constantly get dim and start flickering and its really annoying. Does anyone have an idea why it keeps doing this is it maybe a ghost or something?

2007-03-03 11:41:04 · 15 answers · asked by Sinful 1

A love that fills every crevace of fear, loneliness, doubt. And truly gives you what would be the absolute best for you and your life etc...Would you care who it was?

2007-03-03 11:37:53 · 6 answers · asked by Princess Inquisitive 1

If so, what is its significance/meaning...? Thank you.

2007-03-03 11:17:28 · 6 answers · asked by Alexander K 3

Aliens, heaven, hell, recarnation, etc.what do you think.

2007-03-03 11:11:35 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 10:38:21 · 15 answers · asked by sexy♥ 2

2007-03-03 10:35:53 · 24 answers · asked by hollywoodiswaiting 1

2007-03-03 10:35:34 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous

And by freewill I mean the metaphysical doctrine that choices are not a result of prior events and have a will of their own. For example if I choose to deviate from societal norms, it has nothing to do with past experiences or genetics. "I am making an individual choice."

2007-03-03 10:23:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous

Say you are walking down a sidewalk and all of a sudden you come upon a rope just hanging in front of you. You look up but all you see is the rope going into the blue sky. You have no idea what is holding it up, no idea what it is attached to, or why it is even there to begin with.
What would you do - pull on it, try and climb it, just leave it alone? What ever you decide, you have no idea what the consequences will be. And what do you think your decision means about you?

2007-03-03 10:20:52 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 10:11:52 · 23 answers · asked by maggie 4

What if in this day and age,money is non-existent? As in we donot use money at all? What do you think we will use to have anything that we need or want?

2007-03-03 10:06:56 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 09:52:34 · 15 answers · asked by silver 3

Is this true? after that you could make lots more?

2007-03-03 09:48:05 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

I'm not gonna commit suiside, I just want to know.

2007-03-03 09:33:10 · 11 answers · asked by Maggie 1

Why?

2007-03-03 08:47:05 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 08:32:56 · 9 answers · asked by yourprettyhot123 2

has any one ever herd of sara frender she is suposed to be some person online and she is suposed to help you with your probles and help in prove you life with what you want in life.

2007-03-03 08:28:14 · 18 answers · asked by *Ruffian* 3

2007-03-03 08:19:33 · 34 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 08:13:54 · 10 answers · asked by AC 2

Is the glass half-full or half-empty?

2007-03-03 07:53:05 · 16 answers · asked by crazydrummer347 2

We know we are all bound to die. We know until we die we will indulge in restless search for peace of mind like searching for a black cat in a dark room.
We know that this selfish world is not a good place for our dear and dearest blood to take form and struggle for existence - i mean to say live among Hitlers... Saddam Hussains... Ladens.. to cheap crooks around us whose nature is to harm and survive their selfs... and above all we very well know.... no amount of Wealth can keep our kids in true happiness and that we know we have nothing in our hands to protect from lurking diseases that we know they exist and that we know we have very little in our control that we could do to protect the planet from greenhouse and such man made disasters and for sure we know these man made mistakes are going to wipe out nature (that nature that mankind require for existence) and we know greedily consumption of unreplacable natural resources unmindful of future generations.........so why should we

2007-03-03 07:35:05 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 07:33:26 · 13 answers · asked by Einsteininium 4

And please don't tell me that whatever God says is good is good because most rational human beings do not accept any concept based soley on the word of any authority (including God's authority).

2007-03-03 06:59:36 · 20 answers · asked by alexandria_bonaparte 1

2007-03-03 06:59:23 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous

Try a thought experiment. Close your eyes and imagine you will die and that your consciousness will cease to exist forever, eternally-- never to return. Death then, is not sleep, because the comfort of sleep is that we are partly dreaming, and even when we aren't conscious, our unconscious mind is at rest. But death is the end of your consciousness, so you cannot logically call it sleep. Your world (you only know of this world as a subject) will cease forever. Whether humanity lives on for thousands or millions of years, or whether another species eventually evolves is irrelevant to the world you lose, because you will never be apart of it. Nothingness is not a state, and neither is it sleep or bliss. The nothingness before you were born is irrelevant here, because you had not come into being yet. But here you are. Now to the question: Does that scare you?

2007-03-03 06:54:50 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous

for example:
1. If your scratch your "butt" (you know what i mean), dont bite your fingernails.

2. Give a dog an appetizing name, and eat him

3. When you want to eat a cow, eat at wendys, when you want to eat 2000, eat at mcdonalds. (mcdonalds burgers contain over 2000 cows. . . mixed and mashed together)

2007-03-03 06:47:28 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

2007-03-03 06:45:17 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Today young men on acid realized that alll matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one conciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only dream, and we're the imagination of ourselves.

2007-03-03 06:41:59 · 4 answers · asked by dparish22 1

..runs not through the borders of countries or between black and white, but through every human heart.

does anyone know who said that, or something like it?

2007-03-03 06:25:47 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous