Yeah, Brian, so now that the war has ended, go and buy that hd-dvd player you've been wanting! Don't forget to pick up a car load of hd-dvd movies while you're out!
Let's say at some point in the future we have the ability to repair damage to the brain with computing devices.
Say I have a stroke and it impairs my vision, I go in for a procedure that replaces the damaged part of my brain with a device that mimics that functionality, restoring my vision. Am I still me?
I have another stroke and lose control of the right side of my body. Go in for another procedure to fix that. Am I still me?
As I age, this goes on (I eat at McDonald's four times a day). At what point am I gone and turned into just a copy of who I used to be running on different hardware?
Our cells are being replaced constantly. I don't think it's as cut-and-dried as you make it out. On the other hand, uploading my mind in bulk into a system and expecting that to be "me" doesn't intuitively seem possible. A consciousness can't exist in two different places... or can it? Maybe it seems impossible only because we haven't experienced it.
Whatever the case, it's a fascinating subject.
If I recall correctly, I think gravity is stronger than the expansion force at close distances but the expansion force increases with distance. Can't remember where I heard that but google the rate of expansion, etc.
of prose as well as program code. I get mixed results with the creative liberties I takes with comments. It depends on the environment I guess. In the big, formal corporate place I worked, the people generally didn't take too kindly to it. In more informal environments they get a kick out of it.
If you're talking about the documentation for a project, I think I'd keep it straight. Who wants to plow through a bunch of shitty writing to understand a program? Technical docs should make it as easy as possible to find what you're looking for as quickly as possible.
out of the government. I've been searching for videos of nuclear detonations online forever and haven't come up with anything. Maybe it's time to try again...
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Like a good trainwreck, I can't stop watching
i want one for this game
Yeah, Brian, so now that the war has ended, go and buy that hd-dvd player you've been wanting! Don't forget to pick up a car load of hd-dvd movies while you're out!
Let's say at some point in the future we have the ability to repair damage to the brain with computing devices. Say I have a stroke and it impairs my vision, I go in for a procedure that replaces the damaged part of my brain with a device that mimics that functionality, restoring my vision. Am I still me? I have another stroke and lose control of the right side of my body. Go in for another procedure to fix that. Am I still me? As I age, this goes on (I eat at McDonald's four times a day). At what point am I gone and turned into just a copy of who I used to be running on different hardware? Our cells are being replaced constantly. I don't think it's as cut-and-dried as you make it out. On the other hand, uploading my mind in bulk into a system and expecting that to be "me" doesn't intuitively seem possible. A consciousness can't exist in two different places... or can it? Maybe it seems impossible only because we haven't experienced it. Whatever the case, it's a fascinating subject.
It would come in pretty handy for space exploration.
28 days later, Milla Jovovich is naked on your shower floor washing away the zombie blood...
i don't see the downside here.
If I recall correctly, I think gravity is stronger than the expansion force at close distances but the expansion force increases with distance. Can't remember where I heard that but google the rate of expansion, etc.
of prose as well as program code. I get mixed results with the creative liberties I takes with comments. It depends on the environment I guess. In the big, formal corporate place I worked, the people generally didn't take too kindly to it. In more informal environments they get a kick out of it. If you're talking about the documentation for a project, I think I'd keep it straight. Who wants to plow through a bunch of shitty writing to understand a program? Technical docs should make it as easy as possible to find what you're looking for as quickly as possible.
out of the government. I've been searching for videos of nuclear detonations online forever and haven't come up with anything. Maybe it's time to try again...
It's not even a new slashdot article.