[geeks] [rescue] consciousness immortality [was: Sun Sparcstation 20 hard disks]

[Dan Sikorski]

>> not a nightmare if a stroke deprived you of the ability to speak?  or
>> see and hear?  left you paraplegic?
> Not really.  Perhaps my threshold for "nightmare" is higher than yours.
> Or perhaps I lack imagination - or you have an excess.  Or perhaps I'm
> just exhibiting the human tendency to downplay the seriousness of
> familiar risks; that's a risk I've lived with basically all my life.
>

Here's the worst case scenario that I can think of:  Suppose that your 
consciousness has some ability to live on indefinitely without any 
sensory or communication abilities whatsoever.  This can be either in 
your body (but detached from the nervous system, etc.) or as transferred 
to some other form.  Personally, my guess is that this would be a torturous.

     -Dan Sikorski