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IF there was a way you could transfer your brainwave patterns, memories, etc. to a machine that would guarantee you an afterlife- a sort of "virtual heaven" similar to the Matrix, but for dead people, would you use it to guarantee an afterlife?

2007-03-14 04:41:07 · 19 answers · asked by billthakat 6 in Society & Culture Religion & Spirituality

all that said and done-
here's the deal... if humans had ready access to a guaranteed utopian afterlife, they wouldn't bother living. Die now, live later would be the attitude (yes, I stole that from KMFDM). Such an invention would be cool, but certainly not a good idea considering human nature.

Although, I probably would participate anyway.

2007-03-14 05:09:24 · update #1

19 answers

would you still be able to commit suicide if it sucked?

2007-03-14 04:43:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Would you be concious and able to think? Or would you literally just be a recording of someone's remnants....

yes to the first option, no to the second. Imagine the kind of intellectual problems you could tackle if you didn't have to worry about dying, not to mention the perspective would be entirely different to anything we have now...

2007-03-14 12:02:29 · answer #2 · answered by S1LK 3 · 0 0

No. I'm fine with ending, though I do believe in a non-supreme being centered afterlife.

2007-03-14 11:54:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

No! Why would I want to spend the afterlife as a machine???

2007-03-14 11:44:56 · answer #4 · answered by Rachel M 4 · 0 0

Man, you've *got* to read the works of Richard K. Morgan. He's spot on about what we'd act like if we were functionally immortal.

2007-03-14 11:46:07 · answer #5 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0 0

That's a big "if". I'm not a fan of speculative questions, but I think Dr McCoy would have something to say about that.

2007-03-14 11:44:19 · answer #6 · answered by NaturalBornKieler 7 · 0 0

Nope, one life is enough for me. I don't need an afterlife of any kind.

2007-03-14 11:43:36 · answer #7 · answered by glitterkittyy 7 · 0 0

uh.. no. I'll take my chances. I'm sure if you do create this...it will create a frenzy, because people may choose it...rather than depending upon uncertainty. Let me know what you do, I may buy shares in your company!

2007-03-14 11:44:54 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Even if you could make a perfect simulacrum of my brain there would not be any way of transferring my consciousness into it. you are welcome to try but you would only have an imitation, not the real deal.

2007-03-14 12:01:10 · answer #9 · answered by Murazor 6 · 0 0

So you are saying that there would be a computer program that would ask "Jim Darwin" questions after my body is decomposeing?

No.

2007-03-14 11:48:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

no I would not. I want eternal life in heaven, not artificial life on a machine

2007-03-14 11:45:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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