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If one day you could "load" or transpose your consciousness onto a more permanent vessel, you would cease to be human. Of course, under any and all circumstances of consciousness forever leaving the body you cease to be human, but all facets which the human body affords this consciousness, such as thought/reasoning, nervous stimulation, etc. would be lost. You cannot think, in the most pragmatic sense of the word, with anything other than a brain. Ergo, while theoretically one's consciousness could be placated in a non-human vessel thus endowing an "afterlife", this consciousness would be depleted of the ability of thought and sense as we know them to be. Artificial eyes can implant images onto a brain today, perhaps tomorrow brain synapses and neurons can function on an artifical mode.
So if your consciousness functioned like a computer, you'd be devoid of emotion, abstract thought, sensory perception; a self-contained bubble of operation sans any vivacity a body offers. Yet I speak through a narrow lens, some 60 years after the advent of computers. A question I've been grappling with of late is, if one day in the future we overcome the punitive limitations of our bodies and are able to achieve new immortality through the use of technology, what value does that give those who lived before? and how will the values of humanity change? (I realize the former question is furtive)
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