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by onyxashanti » Thu May 26, 2005 1:16 pm
what if:
as technology progresses, and or disease or old age take their toll, you have your eyes, ears, and teeth replaced with artificial ones? then at some point youget a brain implant that restores or enhances your cognitive abilities? then as parts of your brain start to give way to age, they are replaced with implantable sub processing units...then as you replace withering parts of your body with artificial ones, the parts of th brain that control those, now gone, body parts, is replaced with chips...and so on and so forth...i believe at some point in this upgrade cycle, your "soul" "could" make the jump from your organic construct to your, now integrated, artificial one. i believe that you would have to trick the brain into transfering its most essential tasks, one by one, to artificial systems until it was all gone.
it's already happening. when was th last time you went thru all your phone numbers and tried to commit them to memory? they're all in a small device [mobile phone] that you keep with you. and as they get smaller, they will be integrated in to your glasses, then into your contact lenses, then into a chip behind your ear, then [as now] you will begin to depend on that chip as a natural part of your memory processes. and in the same way as people who have massive head trauma, where part of their brain is irreversibly damaged, the brain will reroute to another part of the brain...we are already starting to get the brain to reroute to computer chips. although [silicon] chips in present day context will be vastly different to the semi organic processing systems that will be used for these processes.
i think that providing an artificial space for the soul to "jump" to is more feasible than a brain scan as a method of immortality because a scan is still just a scan.
onyx
