The whole idea of putting a human conscioness in a synthetic body does my brain in. To my mind it means you died and a synthetic has stolen your identity. But then I dont feel the same about cyborgs. Maybe the difference is adding to vs moving? Maybe I see the soul as immovable
The whole idea depends on the transfer being fully destructive for the source brain. Which is a kind of suicide. If it was non-destructive and your original brain survived, which one would be you? Certainly both would claim to be you. Reminds me of the end of The Prestige.
I feel like if you digitize your brain that’s a soulless copy, but if it’s your actual brain it’s you
Yeah i think something like that too. Though I'm not sure the soul is in the brain, I think your soul relies on the relationship to it's whole body. Maybe it would be better to say internal sense of self is preserved in the brain? But just transporting the information is just making a copy
But for someone outside looking in, the person is the same. Only the internal has changed.
That’s where I find the HORROR. The idea of some lifeless program taking everything that is me and using it to live a mockery of life is creepy!
Of course we are already using AI to do a version of this. That is the logical conclusion though. Complete replacement
Complex, uncomprehending machines communicating meaninglessly, into infinity. Pure anti-humanity
I feel the same way about transporters in Star Trek. As far as I’m concerned those things completely obliterate a person every time they are used, then rebuilds them elsewhere. A copy of a copy of a copy. But it makes a pleasing chime sounds so nbd.
Had the same thought while watching Alien: Earth. A copy is being made and your existence ends IMO! I also think this about the transporter in Star Trek
To me it depends on the method used. But I don't see the soul as unmovable. Though if you're referencing what I think you're referencing, I totally think they are making copies and killing the originals, there.
Yeah they are 100 percent synthetics that think they are human.
So since you can't move the soul bringing the synthetic to the soul makes more sense to me.
This is tantalisingly close to being a full monologue from Ghost In The Shell.
I mean this is what ghost in the shell is about largely