2045 : The Year that man becomes immortal

[ThaChozenWun]

The possibilities are endless. I do see what your saying and it was mentioned in the article. Taking our consciousness and implanting it into to a machine to make......well a cyborg. My only question then after would be--with our conciousness in the machine are we still ourselves?

Yea, you're still yourself only with a new body. At first it would probably confuse the hell out of someone going from flesh and water to metal and air and adjusting to the body and it's unlimited capabilities but eventually it would be like you were beforehand mentally.

 

[kingblaze84]

Well if we would be able to take a person, and turn them into some sort of AI, we wouldn't need to try and discover a quicker alternative. If a human is AI, they're immortal, just need the parts to change to keep them fresh and working. I believe the closest inhabitable planet right now would take 330 years to get to, now that's a long time, but if you're immortal, and can start up a large enough traveling space station it would be no problem to travel to another planet and start. It would help to be quicker and alot less boring lol, but it wouldn't be required. Plus I don't think it would be artificial brains ran off computer chips. It would be an later down the road artificial body with the human retaining their brain.

Kind of like Mr. House in Fallout: New Vegas. I can definitely see that happening. Hopefully computers wouldn't be AS powerful as Mr. House was, but I will never doubt the possibilities of human technology. No one saw us recording sound or images 1,000 years ago, I can only imagine what another 1,000 years will bring us. Not including non-stop energy wars.

 

[ThaChozenWun]

Kind of like Mr. House in Fallout: New Vegas. I can definitely see that happening. Hopefully computers wouldn't be AS powerful as Mr. House was, but I will never doubt the possibilities of human technology. No one saw us recording sound or images 1,000 years ago, I can only imagine what another 1,000 years will bring us. Not including non-stop energy wars.

I'm talking like taking for instance a humans legs, and turning them into machines that they can control and so on for the rest of the body. The humans mind remains unaffected it's just basically a new case being build over it. Mr. House was virtually dead, he was stuck in a tube for 2000 years and only lived through a computer program, he was unable to still move about freely in the real world.

 

[melanated khemist]

the mind is immortal, everything else is a gross manifestation of the mind.

 

[janklow]

Kind of like Mr. House in Fallout: New Vegas-

someone needs to get that game away from him because he's absolutely obsessed

ps. i have a theory that if energy wars were "non-stop" it would actually promote some additional solutions before then

 

[ThaChozenWun]

someone needs to get that game away from him because he's absolutely obsessed

ps. i have a theory that if energy wars were "non-stop" it would actually promote some additional solutions before then

That game is a great game, I put in like 17 hours a day when I first got it.

 

[kingblaze84]

I'm talking like taking for instance a humans legs, and turning them into machines that they can control and so on for the rest of the body. The humans mind remains unaffected it's just basically a new case being build over it. Mr. House was virtually dead, he was stuck in a tube for 2000 years and only lived through a computer program, he was unable to still move about freely in the real world.

I hear what you're saying but House never truly died, the computer program was virtual but House's brain controlled it. He was stuck in a tube but his mind was as active as ever. That's why I saw parallels between House and what you were saying. And he was stuck in there for 200 years not 2000. Damn, I am playing this game too much.

 

[kingblaze84]

someone needs to get that game away from him because he's absolutely obsessed

ps. i have a theory that if energy wars were "non-stop" it would actually promote some additional solutions before then

I've been playing NBA 2k11 more and more lately, so my obsession has been waning. I'm still obsessed though, so obsessed I've turned down ass several nights just to play FNV, SMFH.

And oil will be a rare resource in about a hundred or so years (if not sooner), so let's hope you're right.

 

[janklow]

That game is a great game, I put in like 17 hours a day when I first got it.

the game being great may really just be part of the problem

I've been playing NBA 2k11 more and more lately, so my obsession has been waning

yeah, okay, go back to F:NV

And oil will be a rare resource in about a hundred or so years (if not sooner), so let's hope you're right.

people are lazy and all, but the thing is, it's one thing to have complicated politics and such due to resource issues and "non-stop wars." the latter is just not sustainable for a lot of reasons and should at LEAST lead to people saying "fuck it, i guess we DO need more nuclear plants" or whatever

but then again i am a notorious optimist, so...