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Originally posted by CSflim
It also seems to have a certain sense of giving head room to the possibility of immortality. If we were to invent artificial brains, which I cannot see any logical reason as to what we could not, at least in principle, then it follows that we could “download” our memories into this brain and live forever. This is something which I have a hard time accepting. Though it is a very popular topic among airy science-fiction writers, I find it difficult to accept. It doesn’t appear to make any logical sense that “we” could live in a state independent of our bodies. Surely such an artificial brain would only be duplicating us as opposed to actually being us. But what’s the difference?
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I think the mind would provide the body, in order to preserve familiarty, and perhaps even sanity. In your dreams, you have a body, even though you are physically detached from it. The human mind inside a computer needs tactile and visual sense, at the least, and would likely make mental analogs of such. Our sensory input is part of what makes us human.