Remember those Sony handycams that were taken off the market because their IR/heat NightShot mode was cranked up too high and could essentially see through clothes? Combine that w/ some image filtering, feed it back into the lenses in realtime... bingo... naked world!
Gonna be a lot of geeks walking up and down the mall drooling...
Forget the "who is the real you" question for a minute and think about the practical application of this process.
If you copied a human brain instantaneously and exactly into a computer, it would lose its mind pretty quickly.
Brains do a heck of a lot more than think- they work 24x7 to keep bodies (and themselves) alive. A brain would freak out entirely if it woke up with no body. The closest thing in our current world is spinal cord injuries... but the brain can still send chemical signals in those cases.
To pull this "copying" off, you'd need to get someone to write a "body simulator" to keep our e-brains happy.
BRAIN: Liver? Lungs? Heart? SOMEBODY SPEAK TO ME!!!
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Actually, that doesn't sound too hard.
Remember those Sony handycams that were taken off the market because their IR/heat NightShot mode was cranked up too high and could essentially see through clothes? Combine that w/ some image filtering, feed it back into the lenses in realtime... bingo... naked world!
Gonna be a lot of geeks walking up and down the mall drooling...
Forget the "who is the real you" question for a minute and think about the practical application of this process.
If you copied a human brain instantaneously and exactly into a computer, it would lose its mind pretty quickly.
Brains do a heck of a lot more than think- they work 24x7 to keep bodies (and themselves) alive. A brain would freak out entirely if it woke up with no body. The closest thing in our current world is spinal cord injuries... but the brain can still send chemical signals in those cases.
To pull this "copying" off, you'd need to get someone to write a "body simulator" to keep our e-brains happy.
BRAIN: Liver? Lungs? Heart? SOMEBODY SPEAK TO ME!!!