Immortal avatars: Back up your brain, never die

[dreamdancer 0]

interesting...

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ZOE GRAYSTONE is a girl with two brains. Only one of them is human: the other is an exact digital copy that has become conscious in its own right. When the human Zoe dies, her digital brain is implanted into a humanoid robot, effectively bringing her back from the grave.

Such ideas have littered science fiction for decades. Indeed, Graystone is a character in the American TV drama Caprica. But could such a tale ever become reality?

Though there is little prospect of creating a genuinely conscious robo-clone in the foreseeable future, several companies are taking the first steps in that direction. Their initial goal is to enable you to create a lifelike digital representation, or avatar, that can continue long after your biological body has decomposed. This digitised "twin" might be able to provide valuable lessons for your great-grandchildren - as well as giving them a good idea of what their ancestor was like.

Ultimately, however, they aim to create a personalised, conscious avatar embodied in a robot - effectively enabling you, or some semblance of you, to achieve immortality. "If you can upload yourself into this digital form, it could live forever," says Nick Mayer of Lifenaut, a US company that is exploring ways to build lifelike avatars. "It really is a way of avoiding death."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20627631.100-immortal-avatars-back-up-your-brain-never-die.html

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[jtval 0]

Just what we need.

Can you imagine all the assholes that want to live for ever.
Are we (society) allowed to unplug them if they are douche bags?



You gotta figure that they are not real life if your consciousness never merges with "your" digi-consciousness.

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[shah269 0]

Once we unlock the code of consciousness we will have the greatest most addictive drug on the planet.
Living "the" dream "a" dream every day to forgo the bitterness and pitfalls of reality and to die having done nothing, given nothing and risked nothing with a big fat smile on our faces.

The matrix? It's not a prison but heaven with led foil patina.

Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay.

The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

[Zep 0]

Made mr think of this little ditty.


The lunatic is on the grass
Remembering games and daisy chains and laughs
Got to keep the loonies on the path
The lunatic is in the hall
The lunatics are in my hall
The paper holds their folded faces to the floor
And every day the paper boy brings more
And if the dam breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The lunatic is in my head
The lunatic is in my head
You raise the blade, you make the change
You re-arrange me 'till I'm sane
You lock the door
And throw away the key
There's someone in my head but it's not me.
And if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear
You shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon

"I can't think of anything to say except...
I think it's marvellous! HaHaHa!"

Gone fishing

[tharv17 0]

You should check out Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. Its like a Raymond Chandler novel only set in the future. A future where you can be downloaded into different bodies. There is a crime, an anti-hero is summoned, hijinx ensue. Fun read.