Awesomelyglorious wrote:
You just need to know the term "cryogenic" and have some vague idea of transferring knowledge from a brain to a computer.
well, not sure if those are necessarily related, cryogenics and mind transfer, as I assumed to be different things, however same goals.
The idea of transfering the brain to a computer seems very appealing, however I believe that requires some sort of dualism to work, and since that doesn't seem much to be the case, likely that may be an impossible but nice idea.
In any case, very likely, you can get a copy of a "dead" version of yourself, besides the issue that you would be just creating copies rather than actually transfering the mind from one place to another.
And unless the copy can actually feel and recognize everything exactly like we do as human beings, then I suppose that could be a perception of immortality, however not for the original individuals but the copies. And that seems unlikely given the issue related to the mind reagarding dualism vs nondualism.
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