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redbarret
08-02-2008, 12:23 AM
Just think...
You live forever...
You could have guns in your arms....
You think faster...

But...
If there a war
Human vs Robots...
Which side are you on???
Svxji
08-02-2008, 02:58 AM
if thatd be possible, then i whuld have been on the dragons and boghopper side and pwnd all humns and robots!!
LordStark
08-02-2008, 03:50 AM
If it came to a time that my body was useless, this may be an option.

As far as what side I'de be on in the war. Well I'm half Italian so I guess I would wait and see who's winning first. ;)
redbarret
08-02-2008, 03:54 AM
If it came to a time that my body was useless, this may be an option.

As far as what side I'de be on in the war. Well I'm half Italian so I guess I would wait and see who's winning first. ;)

Lol.
I would have been sittin right next to you doin the same thing. :p
goldmonkee
08-02-2008, 06:38 AM
I'm actually writing a novel similiar to this :) It's not so much your brain, it's your conciousness (since your brain will die eventually too) being transferred to an artificial substrate. In theory, it could provide us with a form of immortality. The problem is whether it's actually "you", or just a copy of you. Theseus' paradox gives an easier example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus#Human_identity


Anyways, I would totally be with the robots. CRUSH HUMANS.
dommikhail
08-02-2008, 08:02 AM
Depends. Can humans mutate?

Could I like, be a half-tiger, half-human?

I would totally do that.
troost0
08-02-2008, 08:30 AM
humans just dont like robots robot is the last thing i want to be and human scnd last :p in a world with lotsa different races i mean
Tonynot
08-02-2008, 03:37 PM
Just think...
You live forever...
You could have guns in your arms....
You think faster...

But...
If there a war
Human vs Robots...
Which side are you on???

Think faster, I thought our brain was brought to the robot O.o

Depends. Can humans mutate?

Could I like, be a half-tiger, half-human?

I would totally do that.

No, we can't mutate unless you change EVERY cell in our body, so unless we get hyper intelligent with super technology that won't be a possibility. :)

Well, if you clone yourself and change the gene needed in your clones one cell state the you can do it, we can even make people really large with a green skin if we would want that now but as said, it's required to do really early.
dommikhail
08-02-2008, 03:38 PM
No, we can't mutate unless you change EVERY cell in our body, so unless we get hyper intelligent with super technology that won't be a possibility. :)

Well, if you clone yourself and change the gene needed in your clones one cell state the you can do it, we can even make people really large with a green skin if we would want that now but as said, it's required to do really early.

Luckily for me my hidden lab has yet to be discovered!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Tonynot
08-02-2008, 03:40 PM
Luckily for me my hidden lab has yet to be discovered!

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OML! Do you know how to make Infinite KitKats as well? :D
dommikhail
08-02-2008, 03:41 PM
Alas, matter replication remains a mystery known only to the greatest of forces.

Now, if you wanted something turned into a KitKat...
Tonynot
08-02-2008, 03:42 PM
Alas, matter replication remains a mystery known only to the greatest of forces.

Now, if you wanted something turned into a KitKat...

Like my... FINGERS!!? That'd be awesome!
dommikhail
08-02-2008, 03:44 PM
Give me a few hours in the lab and I'll work summat up.
Tonynot
08-02-2008, 03:47 PM
Give me a few hours in the lab and I'll work summat up.

Cool, but I'd rather want the Infinite KitKat! :P

That's my next goal in life and if I've eaten my fingers that won't be a possibility. =)
dommikhail
08-02-2008, 03:48 PM
Won't you have to swallow a Bag of Holding to eat an infinite KitKat?
Tonynot
08-02-2008, 03:55 PM
Won't you have to swallow a Bag of Holding to eat an infinite KitKat?

A bag of say what now?
redbarret
08-03-2008, 12:28 AM
Won't you have to swallow a Bag of Holding to eat an infinite KitKat?

What are you talkin about?
BrokeHeart
08-03-2008, 04:02 AM
Ooohhhh no. I would choose sweet death over eternal life. Can you imagine getting up every night to release coolant for all of eternity? Or having no need for sleep so you spend every waking second wide awake, due to your robot body never needing it?

No taste for food, no sense of touch, and the fact your heart is gone so think so logically that they never invite you to bachelor parties ever again =P?
Tonynot
08-03-2008, 09:51 AM
Ooohhhh no. I would choose sweet death over eternal life. Can you imagine getting up every night to release coolant for all of eternity? Or having no need for sleep so you spend every waking second wide awake, due to your robot body never needing it?

No taste for food, no sense of touch, and the fact your heart is gone so think so logically that they never invite you to bachelor parties ever again =P?

Even though you would lack of a heart don't mean you wouldn't be able to think with your heart :P

But as you said, eternal life is nothing for me neither, watching all your friends pass away, never growing old with them... NEVER!
snow1wolf
08-04-2008, 01:12 AM
I actually consider living forever a curse. Especially if you are incable of ending your own existence.

As to the question if you were a cyborg(basicly what we are talking about here) and thier was a war between human's and machines. That is a hard question to ask. A better question would be with the possibility of humans bridging the gap between man and machine and rendering the differences rather insubstantial would a war over the fundamental differences between man and machine really be possible any more? The line you draw between man and machine is rather critical. Then i think with the prescence of human cyborgs any war between man and machine would then be little more different than a war between 2 groups of humans. Their differences would already be just along political or belief lines.

As to wheter i would put my mind in a robots body well i suppose that is somthing that you would have a hard time ever going back on. I doubt the technology would be able to completly replicate the senses touch feel sight it just would not be the same thing. I think towards the end of my life i might give it a try as long as i have the capability for self termination.

I get all my wisdom by watching TV. This question sounds like it was copied from an episode of sealab 2021 anyway
Try watching the anime ghost in a shell. It tackles these questions a whole lot.
Cumadrin
08-04-2008, 03:04 AM
I'm actually writing a novel similiar to this :) It's not so much your brain, it's your conciousness (since your brain will die eventually too) being transferred to an artificial substrate. In theory, it could provide us with a form of immortality. The problem is whether it's actually "you", or just a copy of you. Theseus' paradox gives an easier example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus#Human_identity


Anyways, I would totally be with the robots. CRUSH HUMANS.

i read that book, in essense, a few years ago. called Mind Transfer, written by Janet Azimov, 2nd wife of the legendary Isaac Azimov, and i thoroughly enjoyed it.
KingSwampy
08-04-2008, 06:33 AM
I would actually stay human. I think there is more "flexibility, emotion, and fun" as a human. Robots will never be as flexible and being human can make "fun" more intence :D
redbarret
09-28-2008, 08:56 PM
Any more posts?

Rep?
Decrepus
09-28-2008, 08:58 PM
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daemun
09-29-2008, 02:34 AM
i would put my brain in a robot body the first chance i got.

i have a strange obsession with robots, especially the boxy retro ones that go beep beep boop boop (not like r2 style either, this is like... vintage beeping and booping).

rep for anyone who posts pics, comics, tshirts or whatever with awesome robots. and even more rep to whoever discovers a way to make the robot brain transplant happen.