• What Would You Call a Person Who's Consciousness is Transported into a Robotic Body?
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Would having your brain put into a mechanical body make you an amputee or what.
[QUOTE=Killbane;50897847]Would having your brain put into a mechanical body make you an amputee or what.[/QUOTE] Well yea. I actually came about this question when I imagined a procedure for somebody getting completely fucked up in a car crash.
[QUOTE=Destroyox;50899848]Well yea. I actually came about this question when I imagined a procedure for somebody getting completely fucked up in a car crash.[/QUOTE] what a fascinating world it'll be when we can put someone's brain in a robot body but we can't stop getting in fucking car crashes jokes aside i would say cyborg; even if we're being metaphorical, some human element is meshed with a robotic one; even if it's just a brain or a consciousness, "consciousness" is part of a "whole human" plus, cyborg vs android allows the distinction between "human in robot body" and "robot/ai in robot body"
I think the classification of cyborg depends upon if its their actual brain and shit being put into a new body or if their consciousness is transferred into an atificial brain aswell, because that brings the question of how they'd actually differ from a hyper-advanced AI since unless the computer can 100% simulate a human brain where it matters they're going to be a different person.
Johnny Depp Actually a cyborg.
It would depend, really, but assuming a human consciousness that's been completely uploaded to an artificial shell then I'd probably use a term like post-human/transhuman. I think cyborg is a term better used towards someone/something that's a combination of organic and artificial material, which would only apply if you were referring to someone who had their brain/components of their body melded with machinery. A quick short-term solution could be referring to people uploaded to a shell as post-human androids to distinguish between human and AI consciousness. That's assuming we're still using these terms, anyway - in the future there may be a wide number of different slang and formal terms covering the subject.
a "hawking"
Imprisoned.
If they're a human brain in a machine, then they're a cyborg. If they're entirely machine, then answer depends on whether or not it's possible to transfer someones consciousness. I doubt it is, I think at best you'd have an AI based copy making it just a robot/android/gynoid/etc. But if it is possible, then I'm sure cyborg is the proper term.
android nuggat mostly
Adam Jensen. :smile: In all seriousness, I think the best term would be something along the lines of transhuman, posthuman, or cyborg (provided there's some tissues of any sort left over from the original body). Otherwise, they'd be something more akin to a "Human Intelligence", a previously organic mind converted into something like an AI, albeit capable of inhabiting whatever synthetic human (or if heavily altered from a traditional body plan, posthuman) form it would be inside. This would in many ways let the H.I. person live indefinitely, provided they back themselves up or have a "black box"-style reinforced data storage device in their body that they'd backup onto in an emergency.
Homo Novus
Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Some might say 'imposter'.
Rich
toaster brain
call them their name
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[QUOTE=robinkooli;50912581]Homo Novus[/QUOTE] haha homo
They'd probably be called transfers.
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Samuel Hayden?
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