Spanxxx

haha. I've been reading all the way to finally see if someone would mention the "soul". The thing that an enormous population of the earth believes in, in one way or another. The "breath of life", your "essence", "being", or many other ways you want to put it.

This is always a fun topic.


Someone brought up the spooky story about transferring your consciousness to a computer, and then it would render you obsolete and the doctors.... blah blah..scroll up to read it..

Anyway, I once proposed something like this to someone along the lines of cloning. If we were to clone someone and THEN give them the exact same copy of your consciousness/memories/thoughts, then would they be you? And of course, they won't be. First, there is the problem with age. To clone, doesn't mean you wind up with a being that is identical to you in age, form, etc.. BUT, given we made a human body identical to yours in all forms, but gave them your consciousness, THEN would they be you?

And, of course, the answer is no. From the moment that happens, your experiences are different. You are you, the cloned you is, well.. The Cloned You (barring you haven't given him/her a name yet). You will both from that moment on take different paths based on every decision you make from that point forth. Therefore, you will never be the same person.


I really enjoyed the movie Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams. Though, it was not a well received movie by most critics, I found it very intriquing to watch. If for nothing else, than to just THINK about afterwards and extrapolate my own precepts from their ideas behind the movie. I found it very interesting to think about a series of robots that were created to basically be humans in almost every single respect. Then, one day, one model started to malfunction.. it started to transcend it's boundaries and actually "become" conscious and to start to "feel". Once it started to have emotion, it started to become "real", for lack of a better word.