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"I want to live forever in AI" (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

That's what I've always thought more or less, to have a chance you would need a method where mental processing starts to be shared in both, then transfers more and more to the inorganic platform till it's 100% and the organic isn't working anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    The animated series Pantheon has a scene depicting exactly this, and it's one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen.

    Edit: Here is the scene in question. It's explained he has to be awake during the procedure because the remaining parts of his brain need to continue functioning in tandem with the parts that have already been scanned.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Interesting but I would argue that's actually still a destructive copy process. "Old Man's War" did a good job of what I'm talking about, it was body to clone body but the principal was similar and at the halfway point the person was experiencing existence in both bodies at once, seeing both bodies from the perspective of each other until the transfer completed and they were in the new body and the old slumped over.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    That also reminds me of this scene from Invincible where during the copying process their experiences are sort of "blended" making them see from both bodies at once, only here they both live and are separate afterwards.

    Edit: is it obvious how much of a sci-fi geek I am lol

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