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

[Phil Stracchino]

On 08/27/11 13:56, Dan Sikorski wrote:
>>> 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.

That probably would not bode well for sanity.  Although, in the absence
of external stimuli ...   you might just edit/compress it internally
into an indefinite duration of, well, really nothing much at all.


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