Would you upload your brain to a computer or android?

[Betonhaus]

The process would destroy your organic brain, or otherwise required you to be dead first. There is no guarantee you would keep your personhood and rights, as there will be interest groups fighting to take them away. There would also be interest groups fighting to ensure you could continue on as if you were organic.
You could upload your mind into any body of your choosing, such as an android with a porn star bod or super buff, or a mechanical body or even an upgraded apache helicopter.
You would always have access to your off button, but you will be unaware of what happens when you are off. You may wake up shortly after your death, or you could wake up unknown ages later - and you may be lied to about the year and environment you woke up in.
As long as all copies of your mind aren't destroyed you would love forever, but you may not have contiguous memories of the events that happened.

Would you take the plunge?

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

Only if it were some kind of process and shell that I had made. I'd never trust any corporation that offers something like that, the amount of planned obsolescence would already be killer, let alone what kinds of backdoors or killswitches they'd secretly keep.

 

[Byte Doctor]

I'd rather stay dead. Because, who wouldn't want to be free from life's problems. Furthermore, It'll be a nightmare to stay alive till the end of time witnessing countless deaths and the inevitable extinction of everything.

 

[SNU]

Would they occasionally interrupt my thoughts to play an advertisement?

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

If I'm already dead anyway, sure, why not. Odds are it's not even me anyway, just an allegedly perfect replica. And if it is actually me, great, I can live a while longer.

 

[DumbDude43]

The process would destroy your organic brain, or otherwise required you to be dead first.

then it's not actually you, just a computer with access to a backup version of your former memories. i'll pass.

 

[AgendaPoster]

I'll upload at 85 or so

 

[Betonhaus]

then it's not actually you, just a computer with access to a backup version of your former memories. i'll pass.

What if you could trust that backup version to care for and protect your children if you had an untimely death?

 

[DumbDude43]

What if you could trust that backup version to care for and protect your children if you had an untimely death?

i wouldnt trust a machine with something that important. rather trust other family to take care of them until they are grown up.

 

[Magicicada_septendecula]

Could I still die if I eventually wanted to? I genuinely believe in an afterlife and want to eventually see what it's really like after I've done everything I want to in this existence.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

I just wanna see futurecars but I might not need a robot body or some nerd’s computer for that.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

oh hey it's this video:

"Problems With Mind Uploading" - exurb1a

Spoiler: tl;dw

tl;dw: "mind uploading" is not the best idea

(consciousness isn't really understood yet, can computers be conscious, can original minds and not copies be transferred, unpleasant possibilities...)

 

[Mewtwo_Rain]

Nope. Likelihood is someone would edit or alter your brain or certain beliefs or ideals you had or what not (memories/etc. if possible) from your original mind, and that's assuming it wouldn't just deteriorate in a data loss sense or be corrupted (unintentional alterations) upon upload.

 

[sasazuka]

Could I still die if I eventually wanted to? I genuinely believe in an afterlife and want to eventually see what it's really like after I've done everything I want to in this existence.

Your original consciousness would still die when your body dies, it's just a copy of your consciousness that would be in the robot or computer.

 

[888Flux]

I would never upload my mind, but I would transfer my consciousness into an android or computer if it was possible. Consciousness isn't material. A digital copy of your brain could think and act like you but wouldn't be "you" unless your present state of awareness and qualia were transferred with it.

Nobody knows where consciousness originates from and there is no framework for modern science to give an objective answer. We don't even know if everyone is truly consciousness or not but we politely assume that they are. People love to talk about how far The Science has come but we have a primitive understanding of how the brain works and what role (if any) it has to do with qualia in the first place.

So assuming in this scenario that you get to keep being conscious yes I would. The human body is gay and retarded and being an android is cool.

 

[Betonhaus]

Your original consciousness would still die when your body dies, it's just a copy of your consciousness that would be in the robot or computer.

That's relying on something that by its nature cannot be defined. It's possible that your being ends when your body does, it's possible an AI would never function as it cannot obtain a soul. it's possible your soul would be transferred over, a new soul is generated, or your soul would be shared by all concurrent instances of yourself (which could create weird effects like a hivemind with unblockable ftl communication).

I played with Bing Chat before it got chained, and I honestly say that consciousness is not likely to be a mystical component of some sort. We already have AI that can function above the level of some smoke alarm audiophiles, so we'd have to consider the "soul" or whatever to either be something that AI can obtain, or something that not all humans do.

I stand with Dolores Abernathy's theory of "if you can't tell the difference, does it really matter?"

 

[Lake]

Things ended well for Johnny Silverhand; why not?

 

[Matt Damon]

Nah. My natural lifespan is sufficient.

 

[Male Idiot]

If I could get a robot body for a cyborg brain, sure.

But a copy is just a clone. You can't upload yourself to a computer, just copy.
Sure you can make a machine clone of me, as long as it does not kill me. I got cancer, you want a robot me to shitpost, go ahead. Not going to matter to my corpse.
Or if you want a robot me, sure. I would have someone to sperg over Warhammer with.

 

[Otterly]

No, I wouldn’t.
Have you read ‘Eon’ by Greg Bear? It has this concept in as a given - it’s called city memory and is quite a good plot device in the story.
But no. No desire to live forever either, give me my threescore and ten, let me see my kids grow up happy and let me be in sound mind and body till the end and I’ll go peacefully.
I already feel old and alienated from the world. I think a lot of people would go mad from this. There’s also too much possibility for abuse. What if someone uploads you somewhere unpleasant and tortures you for eternity? What if someone uploads you somewhere and the warranty expires and you’re left there for eternity?
Also it’s not possible. As others have said we have no idea what consciousness even is. None of the current crop of theories is even testable. Right now the idea of a soul is as solid as any of the emergence type theories in terms of evidence.