Although not confirmed our conscience is presumed to be part of the electic pulses that happen in our brain/body. I think it would be great if we could literally 'save' people onto hard drive, say for instance, Hawking, and maybe even download him into a robot or something, lol! Seriously though our conscience could then be beamed out through space and who knows who could pick it up or where we could go.
2006-10-01 09:52:29 · 16 answers · asked by chrismyarse 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Yes, I had originally put in my question 'and i don't have a fear of dying' and 'I dont believe in heaven'. Also should have said I'm 29.
2006-10-01 10:49:35 · update #1
I read a serious technical book about 10 years ago that treated Immortality as a possibility if and when we had some sort of neuroelectric circuitry that would be able to handle the download of the sum total of A human's experiences into it. Then when we had the technology that could be downloaded into some sort of neuroelectromechanical device that could read these saved responses and consequently feed them into a curcuitry that would revive the Human aspects of these accumulated quantum packets of translateable psychic energy into human responses and desires. The sugestion was that this was potentially eons in the future. However, there was an arguement that if the Universe was 13.7 billion years old, and our own sun/earth system was about 4.5 billion years old there could easily be cultures elsewhere in the universe that might be virtually eons older then our own. If they had they survived the stupidities that the human population has so far survived. Or would our culture, or their culture be doomed to destroy ourselves before technology can approach this pinnicle? It is hard to say if we could eventually survive through the use of reasoning and understanding of the Human condition and therefore not bring ourselves to the brink of thermonuclear war or environmental desaster. Having seen our response to these crisis so far, it is hard to believe we will not bring oursleves to that end. But if we do survive that long, the possibility of consciousness stored and retrieved is not without some merit, but it would be far in the future unless all our future funding goes to such things as the, "War to End all Moors." and other foolish pursuits of inhuman dysfunction.
2006-10-01 10:31:11 · answer #1 · answered by a_gyno_guy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to disagree with everyone here, but I think that this is quite possible. You arent necessarily crazy for believing this, there are a number of authors in the fields of technology and future studies who are on this trend as well. I think I'd point you in the direction of Ray Kurzweil. He has a number of essays on very interesting topics. In particular, I think you might find some of his writings on Strong AI and The Singularity to be interesting and relevant. One of the links on Kurzweil's page is about "living forever." Some of what you mean, I believe, is contained in that section. I also included some other links to get you started.
2006-10-01 17:06:04 · answer #2 · answered by Jason H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let's assume our consciousness is just a set of electrical patterns (programme? data?)......
If we copied the electrical patterns so there were two sets, maybe they would each feel conscious and have the same memories. But if it was you ... the copy would feel the same as you but you wouldn't feel as though you had moved into it (you are still the "copied" version). Other people might think you had moved (if they talked to the copy), but the "you" that planned the move would be stuck where you where, or gone (dead) if it was "cut and paste".
That's how it seems to me anyway. Not volunteering for uploading or teleportation myself.
2006-10-01 17:12:58 · answer #3 · answered by philjtoh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Technology would have to be seriously advanced to handle this - how would you begin to understand any of the electric pulses as every-ones a complete individual - every program would be different and how does a computer read so many different programs
2006-10-01 16:57:19 · answer #4 · answered by Thisismyview 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't think so, really I don't. They haven't really been able to pinpoint conscience mind yet... and emitting it out of your brain.. well, they are more interested in masking the symptoms of cancer than doing something like this.
Keep dreaming though! I am STILL waiting for my damn jet pack!
2006-10-01 16:55:24 · answer #5 · answered by Willalee 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Depends on your life expectancy if you live another forty years then all things will probably be possible. It is likely that we will have machines more intelligent then us. Nano-technology will arrive and probably give us rejuvenation and instant physical repair. We could then achieve other impossibilities.
2006-10-01 17:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by Aerroc 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well i dont believe in that kind of stuff. your brain waves can be recorded and all body activity levels but why would you think it needs to be floating around to mess up radio waves and tv reception. i guess you are right. this could be done right now. cool. lets have it done. i want to
2006-10-01 16:58:45 · answer #7 · answered by Billy T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it.
A machine capable of creative thought would have to be invented, and if that happens we can all live in a little plastic box and have any experience we want.
2006-10-01 16:59:14 · answer #8 · answered by Mike H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. Because your conscience isn't just a digital file.
2006-10-01 16:53:40 · answer #9 · answered by Rams N 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yeah too bad most of those memories and such are just synaps's (electrical signals sent between brain cells), and that each one only happens when you're alive.
no life = no synaps's
2006-10-01 16:54:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋