Preserving your brain might kill you, but it could help you live forever

[Sableye]

you're adamant you are not using a metaphor for brain surgery so I have to assume you legitimately are asking is there any part of your car you can repair while its running.

[Chromatic Death]

Reminds me when Fry from Futurama fell into the cryro chamber and survived to be in the future, what a trip.

[F.X Clampazzo]

Yeah, I was speaking directly about cars. The entire point of my post, that literally everyone but you seems to have understood, being that the metaphor wasn't quite accurate because you can't replace just about any really important part of the engine while it's running. Humans are vastly different things than engines.

[Helari]

Pointless argument because the definition of the self is up to interpretation. Consciousness is real even though it's emergent and can't exist independently. The self can also be seen as emergent out of the functioning of the consciousness but also "external" inputs that influence the consciousness because the self wouldn't exist as it is without them.

I think if an identical or nearly identical consciousness can be formed out of some parts of the "dead" one then it can be considered the same consciousness (ship of theseus comes to mind as a similar problem).

[ignhelper]

I don't know about you guys but I really want to know what alien rice pudding taste like

Or what drugs they do

And we're not going to know till like the year 2583 or something

[SleepyAl]

I don't think consciousness could be copied or uploaded in a way where the original individual's consciousness is transferred and the person continues to "live" in a new form. Instead I think it's more like making an exact copy of something that is then a separate entity. The new consciousness just thinks it's the old one.

I mean, if an exact clone was made of you, and both you and the clone were alive and awake, you wouldn't be one consciousness, you'd be two different consciousnesses with the same properties, and from there the two consciousnesses would become different. Basically, in my opinion uploading your consciousness wouldn't make you live forever, it'd just be a copy of you that would live forever while you eventually die. Unless the transfer is somehow continuous and the old body becomes a philosophical zombie I don't think immortality via brain upload is the way to go.

[TheCreeper]

I thought opinion pieces get you banned.

[Sims_doc]

That's why i'm for the biological path as you'll likely have fragmentation with ascension.

However we can likely re-engineer humanity to prevent degeneration of the DNA and then you'll be limited to memory captaincy of the brain and dying randomly by lightning.

[ignhelper]

What about aging? Will we be able to freeze aging, or turn back to a desired age, or age till like 500 years old?

[Sims_doc]

Degeneration of your DNA is aging as your body copys an increasingly corrupted strand of your DNA.