by Spaceball on February 10th, 2008

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If you could upload the whole contents of your brain into a computer chip and live forever as an android, would you?

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by Cowboy-Matter of Fact on February 10th, 2008
No, I am certain I would not want to do that.
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- Good for you!
  
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  by Spaceball on February 10th, 2008
- Then you'd die and all your memories get erased.
  
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  by Tondoteottotote on February 23rd, 2009
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by Tamilze on March 20th, 2008
Yeah, but I have some conditions first:

-I must either get to have my brain chip put in a robot body replica of myself or a robot tiger.
-I must have detachable chainsaw hands. Brzzzzzzzz!
-I must have the strength of five gorillas and the energy of a bear that has the energy of two bears.

....

Holy crap! Did you just see that freaking chopper explode?!
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- You'll do for me. Report to the cybernetics lab in the morning!
  
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  by Spaceball on March 20th, 2008
- This sounds almost exactly like an episode of Sealab 2020.
  
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  by yeroco on January 10th, 2009
- Give it a year...
  
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  by Tamilze on January 10th, 2009
- err 2021? I remember the Adrian BarbeauBot
  
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  by yeroco on January 10th, 2009
- Yeah, yeah. Queen of Mars from Olympus Mons to Tharsis. Oh wait, that's a different episode.
  
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  by Tamilze on January 10th, 2009
- Have you been watching "Frisky Dingo"? It's done by the same people. Very funny stuff, but I think the series is over already.
  
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  by yeroco on January 10th, 2009
- I have all the episodes. I don't think it's over yet....it can't be.
  
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  by Tamilze on January 10th, 2009
- Check out the wikipedia entry on it :( It was canceled briefly after it spun off to a new series called "The Xtacles". Only two episodes of that were created before the company went belly up.
  
  I hope that group does something again soon. Their cartoons are too funny.
  
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by Sugar-licious a bellydancing rum maiden on February 12th, 2008
Androids are guaranteed eternal life? Oh, I'm afraid my brain in a computer chip would really piss someone off and they would smash it to smithereens.
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by OldMick on January 7th, 2009
I have a friend who is working on this very problem. He reckons by 2030 it will be possible. He has it all worked out theoretically but the avatar needs further research. All the physical requirements of a human body are not yet available in robotics. Once they are, he says, there is no problem downloading your memory into a computer. You have to do it during sleep, when there is a short time - seconds only - when you are actually dead. Instead of your brain turning on again to consciousness, electronics will download your brain's contents to the computer. Then, my friend, you can live for ever.
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- ...or untill somebody pulls the plug out.
  
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by Xskills on March 26th, 2008
Mmmm....I'm gonna have to say no on that one because our minds as data might hinder our sentience.
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- took me a while to understand what you meant... but yes!
  
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  by Spaceball on March 27th, 2008
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by Kitten on January 9th, 2009
Yes.
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by Rinky Dinky Do on January 9th, 2009
Hell, no! I'm looking forward to the day the lights go out on me
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by Anonymous on January 9th, 2009
Everyone can live forever now without changing into an android!
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- Ummm.... OK. What's the secret? If it's milk of magnesia don't tell me right?
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  It's milk of magnesia isn't it? I hate that stuff.
  
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  by NeverWas on January 9th, 2009
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by Phillis - Zacks little sister on July 3rd, 2008
No. I don't have enough knowledge to fill a computer chip ;-)
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by Prunesquallor on July 2nd, 2008
Well, it would probably improve my memory. :)
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by SABOTEUR on July 2nd, 2008
You mean...we haven't already?

Are you SURE?
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by Cyndi Ninja on March 20th, 2008
No, it would take all the things that make life worth living out of the equation. Emotions, senses, thoughts etc. It doesn't really appeal to me.
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by csimme01 and Ninja Cooper UNMASKED on March 20th, 2008
Sounds cool.. In the Sci-Fi world, this has been handled like this..
The content of your brain ar downloaded to a computer with a simple feeback program. Here you live your life as normal with the computer providing information when requested while the feedback program interfaces with the subconscious mind to provide random events and encounters.(remember the girl you had that dream about when you were 12 years old? She may show up) The real advantage is that the limits of the human body are broken and you can now live quickly with no wet wear to slow you down.
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by KRH on March 20th, 2008
Only if I could be more than Im now or it probibly would be boaring for that long of a time.
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by Tinkerbell on February 10th, 2008
Yeah why not? I can't think of any reason to not do this, it appeals to me a hell of a lot more than being dead.

I see this as a realistic possibility at some point (although not soon) but I think it will be an amalgam of both technology and biologically engineered components. I think there is already cross-over occuring at a primitive level and this will continue. So not a clunky metal man lurching around saying "Danger Will Robinson!" :)
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- Although with the prospect of infinite life ahead of you it may be quite fun (and perhaps fashionable) at some point, to be a clunky metal man lurching around.
  
  And people could copy your program and make slight adjustments
  
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  by Spaceball on February 10th, 2008
- Potentially I suppose.
  
  I see eternal life in a virtual world as being more likely. BUt again not anytime soon. I do broadly agree with the singularity concept but I don't think we will see it anytime soon. And that said I am not 100% convinced by strong AI yet. John Searle still weighs heavy on my mind :)
  
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by Tondoteottotote on February 23rd, 2009
I probably would not mind living on. ;)
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by Chopsy the Diver on February 10th, 2008
As long as i can be kryten with multiple adaptors...then yeah why not!
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by Anonymous on May 21st, 2008
Can I download to multiple androids at the same time? And do the androids have the same sensory input capabilities as a human body or do they exceed the current limit? If something were to happen to one of the androids would I still be able to download another copy again? Do each of the multiple copies receive input from the other ones or are they completely independent? There has to be a Scifi book or movie in there somewhere!
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by kamakaze on October 13th, 2011
hell no! i like being who i am :)
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by JustImagine on October 13th, 2011
no, because the robot would not be alive but rather just using my former memories upon a non-conscious brain. Even if you could transfer your braincells upon computer chips without blood, oxygen, nutrients, water and sleep the brain cells would not live very long. So from that perspective you would be wasting your time. Its like a doctor without supplies. Good thinking, though.
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by JustImagine on April 17th, 2011
Hell yeah, I would be dancing the roboto on a distant planet:0)
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by dewshaft on April 17th, 2011
Who really wants to live forever?
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by Gicomeng on July 2nd, 2008
YOU BETTER BELIEVE I WOULD!!!!!
One can always pull the plug on life at any time, but to live across thousands of years getting a fresh new body every fifty years and retaining what you already know is the absolute height of control. Someday -- probably within the next 500 to 1,000 years -- this could be very possible... as long as we can start populating other planets...
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by Cs01kh on July 2nd, 2008
Not if I was the first (as i would propably be seen as a freak and continuously pictured/followed etc...).

If several androids have been created and it was not too strange to hear that a new android has been downloaded, I may do it (but I wouldn't be disappointed if it fails and I die - as I already believe in an afterlife)
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by Faithlesstheist on February 23rd, 2009
I would do it the other way around. chip>brain.
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by allzee on February 23rd, 2009
Only if I didn't have to go to the Dr. after a four hour erection.
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by royal77 says hello friend on January 10th, 2009
I don't want to be and android, thanks for asking though.
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by Chris on August 7th, 2008
Sure, with proper lubrication, and a little recharge here and there, I would be around for a long time.
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by Tom 47 is back in his bear COAT on July 3rd, 2008
I don't know, Spaceball. I have been around a long time. I think I even had some previous lives. I am already getting bored with this old carcass. I am tired of staring at the same mug everyday in the mirror when I shave. I stopped shaving for a while, but the mug was even uglier. It frightened children and even dogs. No, I don't think I want to be an android. Curious as I am about how the world will turn out, I don't think I really want to stay around too long. What would I do without all my old cronies? I don't want to be the "last leaf on the tree"....
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by JustImagine on February 1st, 2011
Maybe, although I would rather prefer to clone myself, then download the my memories from a computer chip onto the mind of my clone.
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