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Originally posted by CSflim
Regardless, we can add an extra caveat to the question, that there is sufficient safeguards in place to avoid the possibility of highjacking your signal (one million bit encryption?). Also we can assume that we do not know enough about the operation of the brain to actually iterpret the scan, only to blindly copy the pattern, so no modification or mind reading.
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Okay if we assume that, then still no.
Now if you think about it if something like this were to be invented it wouldn't be invented in a vacuum, there would be all sorts of spin-off technology and the understanding that we would have to have of the human body and mind would be exponentially greater than what we know now.
So all of these questions that I have about what makes us unique, conscious individuals would probably be answered by academics already. I would be very hesitant at first. But once it became common place to use them and I'd seen people use them with no adverse affects for a while I would probably pony up and use them, but there would have to be one hell of an understanding of how it works. I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving it up to the computer. I don't trust my computer not to eat my Word documents, let alone my body and mind.