hehe i would but depends on which company is selling this
etc. ..
but anyway copying my mind would be great but this probably means a second copy of me but not me atill acceptable
i prefer adding support for a human brain a external addon plug and play hdd so if something goes wrong with hdd it can be replaced
and external cpu of course with usb/ or networked plug and play support may be with wifi
and ram.. ... by the way hdds 60mb/second speed is far enough and far better then my brains io speed. atleas faster then uncompressed data tranfer speed. imao
that way life will be more colorful .
giving the phsical brain (it ships within body ! ) ... hm... that doesnt look like a cleaver idea
alot expensive.

I'm kind of on the fence over the Brain-in-Jar vs the Digital-copy-in-a-Box method.

With the brain in the jar, you are still a flesh and blood being, and highly vulnerable to attack of any kind. Once the brain is destroyed, you're done.

With the digital option, it is far easier to develop backups and system redundancy. Sure, I might forget a day or two here and there over a 'life span' after recovering from a problem, but I can still go on afterwards.

And if some of my friends are used as a baseline, forgetting most of the day of some party isn't exceptionally unusual.

I'm kind of on the fence over the Brain-in-Jar vs the Digital-copy-in-a-Box method.

With the brain in the jar, you are still a flesh and blood being, and highly vulnerable to attack of any kind. Once the brain is destroyed, you're done.

With the digital option, it is far easier to develop backups and system redundancy. Sure, I might forget a day or two here and there over a 'life span' after recovering from a problem, but I can still go on afterwards.

And if some of my friends are used as a baseline, forgetting most of the day of some party isn't exceptionally unusual.

I think the brain in a box would probably be a lot more suceptable to viruses as well because you'd have to have some established format to store biological data in the computer. Seems like the existence of such a format on easily alterable storage could cause big problems.

I'm not sure this would be much fun. If it was, there would probably be a popular MMO about it.

I'm not sure this would be much fun. If it was, there would probably be a popular MMO about it.

There is an mmo about making bricks (a tale in the dessert). I don't think this correlation is as strong as you think it is.

I would never do that. I always imagine getting infected by some computer virus if my mind was transferred into a computer.

I would never do that. I always imagine getting infected by some computer virus if my mind was transferred into a computer.

As opposed to a biological virus that can kill you in your puny physical body, of which you don't get to make backup copies?

of which you don't get to make backup copies?[/quote]
See my comment about blowing out your brains

of which you don't get to make backup copies?

See my comment about blowing out your brains
[/quote]But with what Luckless is talking about, a copy would only be created if you die (he doesn't mean backup copy in the sense that you copy a person who then hangs around just in case - rather the information is backed up, but only instantiated as a person if required).

Of course yes, it would be possible to create multiple copies even when you're still alive. Maybe the thought of that happening would put some people off - though that's a separate issue to the "imagine getting infected by some computer virus" point that was originally made.

Of course yes, it would be possible to create multiple copies even when you're still alive. Maybe the thought of that happening would put some people off[/quote]
I have no moral issues about the idea at all, I just think its rather pointless, its like having children knowing they can 'carry on the legacy' or something, its a nice idea for some ppl, but for me personally it doesnt give me anything, cause when Im dead Im dead.
mdwh forget about dying, say there was a copy of you in a pc, you can chat to it whatever, OK I can see it would be nice to chat to someone who thinks like you & imagine crating 1000 of them and get them to say, program. It will certainly help but how does that improve you (the person on the pc chatting to the copys) life?