Question by Desiree: Once we develop the technology to capture the consciousness inside a computer, what will happen to the body?
Will the body go into a coma never to awaken or will the body just die as soon as the consciousness is removed?
Best answer:
Answer by IanCorrigible
Mine will be as awesome as ever.
What do you think? Answer below!
Child, you are asking is to describe the effects of a technology which does not exist, and may never exist.
Same as if you went to Heaven, Desiree: “Who Cares?”
DID YOU LEARN NOTHING FROM TERMINATOR???
Neither did I.
Nothing can not capture our soul unless you give it away. Amen
Consicousness is your brain. The most they can do is replicate it inside a computer, but it’s impossible with currect technology.
Won’t happen. We may be able to replicate the thought process and certain aspects of the original personality .
But we will not capture the conscious, we are not even sure where it originates and where it is housed, nor the chemical process needed to put together simple cognitive thought.
Depends on the extent the computer removes the intelligence. If the consciousness and subconsciousness are removed entirely, the body won’t have the command unit to keep it running. If only the conscious and some of the subconscious are removed, the body could survive.
That is when pigs fly!
Doubt it will ever happen, for the reason consciousness is seemingly non-physical, even at the atomic scale..possibly, actually, nobody knows what it is exactly and it’s source (if it has one)..honest answer from thinking about it for most of my life, and believeing there is consciousness, but unable to explain it..
Bodies can be kept alive artificially for years, and I suspect such technology will be far improved on where it currently is by the time we can transfer consciousness digitally.
If men do not comprehend the character of God, they do not comprehend themselves.
The best philosophy says all knowledge is embodied. Since Aristotle it has been known that all knowledge comes through the senses.
The Computer has been the chief tool to undermine your thesis. And here is the hero of that position
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=5890
What Computers Still Can’t Do
A Critique of Artificial Reason
Hubert L. Dreyfus
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Embodied cognition
Philosophers, cognitive scientists and artificial intelligence researchers who study embodied cognition and the embodied mind believe that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body. They argue that all aspects of cognition, such as ideas, thoughts, concepts and categories are shaped by aspects of the body. These aspects include the perceptual system, the intuitions that underlie the ability to move, activities and interactions with our environment and the naive understanding of the world that is built into the body and the brain.
http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
Well… since we’re on the subject of stuff that doesn’t exist yet… we’ll keep it in that vein.
The body will be stored with cryogenics in case it is needed again at a later date, at which point your consciousness will be transferred back to the body.
The consciousness would not be removed, it would be duplicated.
Consciousness without a flesh and blood, human body is a contradiction in terms and therefore an “experience” no computer will ever know. The complex orchestrations of physiological input from the five senses, not to mention the sixth if it indeed exists in some people, and the conclusions often drawn by wild abstraction of the mind, not only surpass the greatest artificial intelligence sleights of hand (if they only had a hand) but require physical and cognitive abilities no machine could ever aspire to achieve.
I understand your concern. You’re worried that someday you’ll wake up in a world run by computers, a society that doesn’t need you. Perhaps you already feel that way. Let me tell you: no machine can ever replace you. You are a member of the human race, which created computers, but we are the ones with real lives and memories and creativity. Living, breathing, sentient humans, unlike cold hardware and inanimate software, do not become outdated as soon as the next version comes along.
Well…at least our shelf life is measured in terms of millenia.