Mind transfer to a more durable body?

@Otanetix (508)
United States
August 30, 2012 9:00pm CST
If you were given to the chance to live longer by transferring your consciousness from your current vessel (body) to another vessel, would you do it? For example, your current body is suffering from a terminal disease or whole/part of your body is immobile. Two options come to mind as example of new vessels. First, a genetically engineered clone of yourself, which is stronger, faster, has adept cognitive processing skills that rivals non-enhanced human beings, and is less susceptible to pain and sickness. And second, a android that is completely consisted of synthetic materials, which would possibly mean converting consciousness into data for compatibility reasons; basically, convert consciousness of a human brain to one that would fit a robotic brain. Anyway, I apologize if any of my examples are inaccurate about engineering enhancements for both the artificial and biological sides. I just wanted to give some detailed examples of possible ideas for mind transferring technology. While this technology is probably not available to the public or even in existence yet, I like the idea of dreaming about the potential technology in the future. Some might even look at this type of technology as a gateway to immortality.
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• United States
31 Aug 12
That always sounded like a great idea but now as I'm older I think it would only be great if certain people (everyone?) could have this capability. That sounds awful, but what I mean is that I wouldn't want to live forever and watch everyone I care about suffer or die. But as far as the options you mention above, if I had a choice - I would prefer the first.
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@Otanetix (508)
• United States
31 Aug 12
Actually, what you said about it being available to everyone could be possible. The example I used is in a situation where this type of technology is still new and only available to those who are about to die or seriously handicapped. New technology is usually more costly in the beginning because it has not become a common practice for businesses; at that point, they have not yet found the most efficient way to process this technology. Like with computers, they were so expensive maybe around ten years ago. Now, they are slightly cheaper because our technological advancements has made the process of manufacturing computers faster and more efficient. So for mind transfer technology, once this technology becomes more of a common practice for businesses, hopefully the technological advancements for processing mind transfer technology at that time would be so advanced that it's more available and affordable to everyone; this way the technology will not only be limited to those seriously handicapped and with terminal illnesses. This way it sounds much better, right? Anyway, thanks for your comment, Christine637.
• United States
31 Aug 12
Oh, you're welcome. I saw an author on The Colbert Report that predicts that medical technology will have nanobots that they inject in your system and they keep everything working. That sounded fascinating and possible.