Comments on: Mind Transfer

by: Holly

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:04:40 +0000

This concept scared me at first, but somehow after finishing The Age of Spiritual Machines by RK, I just felt so optimistic and excited about the future of machines. One thing that makes it less scary is the idea that he talks about that in reality, it’s likely to be a gradually changeover instead of an immediate transfer. A new hearing system one year, new eyes the next, new back up brain storage, etc. If you change little by little, it wouldn’t be as scary and would be easier to be excited by the new skills and opportunities available now that you are enhanced.

by: Monika

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:39:56 +0000

We should watch the movie “Free Jack”; the underlying theme is mind transfer to a computer and its implications for society in general and for human relationships in particular. Cool movie and Mick Jagger is quite good in it.

by: TheG

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 00:36:04 +0000

Exactly.

by: Todd

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 16:27:42 +0000

It’s just easier to think of it as a mind transfer if there is only the one mind the whole time. If you have a mind in the body and a mind in the robot at the same time, you start thinking: which one is the real me?

by: TheG

Mon, 21 Aug 2006 01:50:06 +0000

Indeed…the whole key part of scenario 2 is that it’s a transfer. But how to guarantee that it is indeed a transfer and that nothing’s left in the body…I don’t know. Maybe I’d not care so much about scenario 1 if the the body was immediately killed, and never regained consciousness after the copying. Otherwise from one point of view, you’d have the robot version watching itself grow old and die…not fun. And of course, the other point of view is that the original one would grow old and die…also not fun.