I'll pose for you the question that I find myself wondering about when I navel gaze about this topic. My stumbling block on the "we are what we are" and there is no such thing as the soul question gets into the issue of non-mystical transmigration.
Given technological growth, it's not hard to envision that we will soon be able to transfer and/or perfectly replicate an individual's psyche (memories, thought-process, consciousness, call it what you will) into an artificial host.
Does that impact who we are? Does it just play into the Many Worlds concept that "I" am just one of many iterations of "I"?
Is there a difference between transferring a psyche and the existence of a soul? What if we start to create our own customized after-lifes to transfer ourselves into?
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Date: 2012-03-23 03:31 pm (UTC)Given technological growth, it's not hard to envision that we will soon be able to transfer and/or perfectly replicate an individual's psyche (memories, thought-process, consciousness, call it what you will) into an artificial host.
Does that impact who we are? Does it just play into the Many Worlds concept that "I" am just one of many iterations of "I"?
Is there a difference between transferring a psyche and the existence of a soul? What if we start to create our own customized after-lifes to transfer ourselves into?