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$new = clone $old;

Posted: Tue Feb 19, 2008 11:51 pm
by alex.barylski
If you followed my previous thread...this one will make a little more sense...

Just watched a video on science and technology...the author predictes that in 20-30 years we will have the human brain figured out, chips implanted in our clothing, etc. Giving us an almost cyborg like existanec - wicked!!! I'll be first in line to get a bionic arm. 8)

Call me Hock-oid - beep! :P

Anyways...like I said...got me thinking about life and my own existance. If they figure out a way to essentially dump your brain to disk...that is every emotion, memory or life experience you ever had could be copied and stored in binary form, basically turning you into a computer program, giving you immortality.

You no longer needed your physical existance...essentially from that point on...the computer code was a complete and total clone...would you destory the original object and live indefinetely as an exact clone of the other.

To answer this, I had to ask myself some serious questions...like what is it exactly that constitues "me".

We can already gaurantee perpetual existance...at least in physical form vai DNA and cloning. But the physical you...is nothing more than source code or software...what really matters is each instance of that application...what is stored in RAM so to speak...

If you could copy yourself...and this required destroying the original instance...would you?

Re: $new = clone $old;

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:58 am
by Mordred

Re: $new = clone $old;

Posted: Wed Feb 20, 2008 1:17 am
by alex.barylski
Oh man...I have to read that!!!!!!

Thanks for the heads up. :)