nooooo...

 

BTW. SOPA is stupid.

My first shiny on Platinum was a Rattata. :lol:

 

What's SOPA?

That's what I was thinking about. Although it's currently impossible to have a brain transplant, let's say that in the future, they're possible.

 

Example: A woman is involved in a horrible car accident. Her entire body is traumatized, and, for all purposes, she's 'dead'...but her brain is alive. Doctors manage to transplant her working brain into another body. If she woke up and survived, what would be going through her mind? She had been in one body her whole life, but now, she looks completely different - and most observers will think that she is, indeed, a different person; what happens to a mind transferred to another body?

 

And also, heart can be transplated, but brain not.

One person's heart can be transplated, but if it got a new brain, would it be a totally different person?

 

Would the first person somehow die?

 

Does that mean that brain is where the whole life takes place?

I love Pokemon

 

And always will

 

Yup

 

I still wanna be a Pokemon trainer

My first shiny on Platinum was a Rattata. :lol:

 

What's SOPA?

 

A major threat to online freedom of speech.

I love Pokemon

 

And always will

 

Yup

 

I still wanna be a Pokemon trainer

 

I WANNA BEE THE VERY BEST THAT NO ONE EVER WAS.

 

SING IT DREAM TEAM!

argh I wanna discuss Pokemon and SOPA too :veryangry2: you guys will have to keep on topic until I get back :lol:

Let's assume that the entire internet is hosted by millions of servers. Since all of the computers are relying on the internet for the memories to be present, what would happen if every internet server was destroyed/completely corrupted (unlikely, I know, but still)?

 

Additionally, 'capturing' these memories on a device that, for all practical purposes, has no senses (touch, taste, etc.) would be fairly complicated. How would you be able to recreate these memories from simple data files? Computers can only do so much.

 

I disagree. As you said, organ transplants are performed regularly, and the people who receive them are the same. However, I would argue that one's physical body highly affects how their mind works. For example, if someone is overweight, they may have lower self-esteem - and self-esteem is, in essence, a mental function. (that's not a great example, but I think you get the idea).

 

Hmm . . . Well, as you said, highly unlikely :P But I'm going to assume that since the 'memories' are paramount in their importance, that every time a memory is uploaded to a harddrive, a physical 'copy' is made also (Now, whether or not transferring memories to words, coding, symbols, or whatever other means you have is possible is an entirely different matter). Of course, the physical copies could be destroyed also (boy, are the odds getting high!), and I suppose that if all of those events were to take place, then all of the information would be 'lost' and life as we know it would end.

 

Of course, if there is no life, can there be death? If life, by our definition of the word, ceases to exist, then doesn't death cease to exist also? And if there is no death, have we defeated it?

 

I was using computers as a theoretical medium--in the far future, we humans will probably come up with something more complex (and then we get into the subject of artificial intelligence). But, say you have a computer on which a memory is stored. The computer could be embedded with a 'code' which allows it to produce a current of electricity / stimuli of some sort that targets the memory and, when the code is 'read' will trigger the memory response of the taste / smell / etc. . . . Although since the memory will lack a physical being, it could be that 'sensing' at all would be impossible.

 

Well yes, receiving an organ transplant (or something similar) would probably change you to a certain degree, but it would also be just like a normal experience: every single thing you have done in your entire life has made you who you are. It has built up your character and emotional span. Having an organ transplant would just be another experience that adds to a massive character that has already developed and is constantly changing.

 

Antimatter, since it is considered the reverse/negative of normal matter, would also theoretically have an anti-density and anti-mass. A vacuum is created when there is no mass (and, by extension, density). The question then becomes how to describe this 'anti-mass'; it's not a vacuum, but it's certainly not matter as we know it.

 

(...that was a giant post. Sorry to everyone who's too scared to contribute! :lol:)

 

Exactly. I would say that a black hole would be the closest thing (that we can comprehend) that could compare with anti-matter, but even the nothingness of a black hole has mass. I don't think we as humans have the vocabulary or the brain capacity to define something that is the opposite of density, mass, volume, etc.

That's what I was thinking about. Although it's currently impossible to have a brain transplant, let's say that in the future, they're possible.

 

Example: A woman is involved in a horrible car accident. Her entire body is traumatized, and, for all purposes, she's 'dead'...but her brain is alive. Doctors manage to transplant her working brain into another body. If she woke up and survived, what would be going through her mind? She had been in one body her whole life, but now, she looks completely different - and most observers will think that she is, indeed, a different person; what happens to a mind transferred to another body?

 

 

Well, I would say that it would be another 'experience' that defines your character (although a massive one, at that). Since your memories and your character are constantly changing and reacting to the stimuli around you, you would remain the same person, but your view of the world would be skewed at a new angle. :uhoh:

And also, heart can be transplated, but brain not.

One person's heart can be transplated, but if it got a new brain, would it be a totally different person?

 

Would the first person somehow die?

 

Does that mean that brain is where the whole life takes place?

 

Another question that mankind, at this time, cannot answer :P

 

A major threat to online freedom of speech.

 

Yes :angry:

I'll be right back, I'm framing my posters.

*tells Alex and Taameen to hold their horses*

I love Pokemon

 

And always will

 

Yup

 

I still wanna be a Pokemon trainer

 

That was our major discussion in math the other day

I'll be right back, I'm framing my posters.

*tells Alex and Taameen to hold their horses*

 

k

 

Whoa horses!

Oh hai

Hai Madison :D Care to join our debate about immortality, alternate universes, and antimatter?

Or you can sit back here and have some gelato with me?

I don't care for gelato much, either.

 

:blank:

Gelato :wacky:

There's this gelato place near my school and my friend and i are going there on Tuesday :wacky:

 

Come to think of it.... the DC area has awesome gelato :awesome:

:awesome:

 

We have one restaurant that serves gelato around here :disappointed:

 

But it's amazing gelato, so it's okay :wideeyed:

YAY GELATO!

Anna! Respond to my philosophical post! :snobby:

YAY GELATO!

 

*INTERNET HIGH FIVE*

Posters are framed...but I'll get back to you as soon as I finally eat dinner. I can't philosophize on an empty stomach. :P

Posters are framed...but I'll get back to you as soon as I finally eat dinner. I can't philosophize on an empty stomach. :P

 

:lol: Okay.

 

Dang, you eat dinner late :P