Immortality
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- Boz0
if I die in some future deathmatch (instaGibbed by some lurking cretin, no doubt) and society invigorates a new physical host with my knowledge and character - no matter how effective and accurate it does this, it won't be me. It will be a facsimile of me. This new creature might well become me and be seen by friends to be me - but it won't be me. I died. And here I lie, rotting.
So what's the point?
Nairn
(Jul 18 07, 10:11)Well now exactly, this is the question. What makes a man a human being? A live individual? Is it your memories? Your consciousness of your own existence? You physical body?
Some believe that if you transfer memories and prexisting consciousness you essentially transfered the soul, meaning that it would be still YOU, just not in a physical body of your previous self.
Now, having this in mind, we can with almost 100% certainty say that no machine can become a replacement for a human no matter how much data we transfer as it lacks emotions and reasoning, but, on the other hand, a newly born baby (artifically created through a donor, most likely yourself), filled with memories and experiences from your previous physical body would create a pretty close replica of yourself. You genetic material would be in it, your eseential characteristics but also including all your experience and memories.
This wouldn't be necessary cloning, but a natural way of prolonging one's existence in another body that is pretty much a piece of you to being with.