I don't buy it, copying one's consciousness or "soul" does not seem possible to me. It would be the same thing as if someone made an exact clone of you, it would resemble and share the same memory's as you but it still wouldn't be "you". I personally believe based on my own perspective that consciousness and the soul is one thing that science will truly never be able to emulate or completely understand as it is beyond our senses, it is the whole essence of the human condition and if you think about it "you" can't be in two body's at the same time, the body is the seat of the soul.
I think that if this ever did go through scientists would come to realize that the emulated version of the human doesn't have a consciousness and it in essence an empty robot while the original form retains a soul and thus a consciousness. A consciousness/soul is unique to each individual person and cannot be copied.
Anyways, I definitely wouldn't want to be immortal, life itself is suffering and impermanent not to mention all that this is doing is adhering to the survivalist nature of the standard conditioned human mind. All that this technology shows to me is how much clinging humans do to life itself and therefore suffer and will continue to suffer due to their ignorance.
This exactly, people that have an understanding of interdependence would understand that we truly are immortal and that this concept of "birth and death" are actually false and should not exist. All that "death" is, is the changing from being a human being conditioned to your own genetics to another form unless you're one of the few that can escape your own genetics and develop a great understanding of what existence is.
People are afraid to die because they are conditioned by their genetics to want to continue to grow and expand them, in a sense they cling to their own human condition when in fact all conditions lead to suffering in the end. In fact, there is nothing to fear in this thing we call death as it is the transfer from one state of being to another, this isn't even diving into the idea of reincarnation which has been scientifically studied and even supported by evidence and which should also be common sense to most people as if you can be born once why cant you be born again just in the seat of another body?
I hate to point to a philosophy but this really points to Buddhism about how far in great lengths that people will go and how much suffering they will undertake (researching and work, not being happy with their present state) to try to extend their human conditioning vs being happy, content, and peaceful with the present instead of being afraid of "death" and being a slave to your own genetics and clinging to them vs developing a great understanding of what reality really is.
Edited by Mwarren - 8/13/12 at 9:17pm
I think that if this ever did go through scientists would come to realize that the emulated version of the human doesn't have a consciousness and it in essence an empty robot while the original form retains a soul and thus a consciousness. A consciousness/soul is unique to each individual person and cannot be copied.
Anyways, I definitely wouldn't want to be immortal, life itself is suffering and impermanent not to mention all that this is doing is adhering to the survivalist nature of the standard conditioned human mind. All that this technology shows to me is how much clinging humans do to life itself and therefore suffer and will continue to suffer due to their ignorance.
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Originally Posted by ENTERPRISE 
No such thing as immortality in a physical sense in my opinion. You would only be delaying the inevitable. We all change, that is the only one constant, you cannot preserve a human or the true essence of a human being inevitably. We are meant to die and change into a different form of energy. Otherwise our lives and the essence of our lives would become diluted, I would rather die than linger on. I guess it all comes down to each person Philosophical beliefs, but this would not be me. To die and be remembered for what I truly was and what I had achieved is what I want. Existence in one form should be finite, otherwise how do we define ourselves ? The time by which we are limited to is our pushing factor to achieve and to better ourselves. With an Infinite existence you take away one if not the largest fundamental points of what makes us Human.
As far as I see it, while we may not stay in one singular form, we are all immortal, we simply change. Nothing truly dies.
No such thing as immortality in a physical sense in my opinion. You would only be delaying the inevitable. We all change, that is the only one constant, you cannot preserve a human or the true essence of a human being inevitably. We are meant to die and change into a different form of energy. Otherwise our lives and the essence of our lives would become diluted, I would rather die than linger on. I guess it all comes down to each person Philosophical beliefs, but this would not be me. To die and be remembered for what I truly was and what I had achieved is what I want. Existence in one form should be finite, otherwise how do we define ourselves ? The time by which we are limited to is our pushing factor to achieve and to better ourselves. With an Infinite existence you take away one if not the largest fundamental points of what makes us Human.
As far as I see it, while we may not stay in one singular form, we are all immortal, we simply change. Nothing truly dies.
This exactly, people that have an understanding of interdependence would understand that we truly are immortal and that this concept of "birth and death" are actually false and should not exist. All that "death" is, is the changing from being a human being conditioned to your own genetics to another form unless you're one of the few that can escape your own genetics and develop a great understanding of what existence is.
People are afraid to die because they are conditioned by their genetics to want to continue to grow and expand them, in a sense they cling to their own human condition when in fact all conditions lead to suffering in the end. In fact, there is nothing to fear in this thing we call death as it is the transfer from one state of being to another, this isn't even diving into the idea of reincarnation which has been scientifically studied and even supported by evidence and which should also be common sense to most people as if you can be born once why cant you be born again just in the seat of another body?
I hate to point to a philosophy but this really points to Buddhism about how far in great lengths that people will go and how much suffering they will undertake (researching and work, not being happy with their present state) to try to extend their human conditioning vs being happy, content, and peaceful with the present instead of being afraid of "death" and being a slave to your own genetics and clinging to them vs developing a great understanding of what reality really is.
Edited by Mwarren - 8/13/12 at 9:17pm
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