/sci/ - Science & Math

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>>9234136
>anon posts some shitty text version of the trolley problem instead of the memetastic one

>>8016315
How would you guys feel about lossy data in a hypothetical consciousness transfer?

Simply thinking about what's possible for people to accomplish in your lifetime, it is EXTREMELY unlikely that, even should artificial life extension come about, the technology will be "complete" in a sense. The first wave of it would undoubtedly be a painful, stunted existence, or one in which the transferred consciousness cannot yet completely duplicate the feeling of being alive.

Would you still sign up at the first opportunity knowing that your mind would be transferred in a flawed, lossy format that renders you retarded or as an amnesiac, and probably both?

What guarantee would you need to feel that one's mind is safe to transfer?

How would you deal with the dilemma of knowing that you should choose to wait for technology to improve, but that you could get hit by a car or a heart attack at any time and that immortality, even one in which your consciousness is damaged beyond repair, or perhaps lost and replaced by a facsimile, is already available?