Cat brain simulated

**LSCyaL8R** · 11-18-2009, 10:30 AM

Am I the only one intrigued by this?

http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/18/i...mans-are-next/

If they were able to fully model a human brain in real time then the ability to scan a human brain would be next. The final piece in that puzzle is wether your consciousness could be transferred to a machine. Put it all together and you've just become immortal baby!!! It'd be like those heads from futurama only without the head!

Seriously, let's say you are 90 and filthy rich and you have just days to live. The doctor says we can save you but you will need to give up your body. You will live inside a computer.... and you will have 1Tb Internet access 24/7 oh and since you will live in the machine you will never need to sleep or eat. you can play FPS games and surf the web for all eternity!

Does that even slightly interest anyone?

IROC???

**B34M3R** · 11-18-2009, 10:42 AM

The sad thing is, by the time I'm 90, the kind of computer needed for that will prolly be dirt cheap.

Its pretty fucking awesome... some of the breakthroughs we see in our life time are going to be what seems like sci-fi today. Man, I need to go to college for some seriously high-speed science shit.

**Grimpala** · 11-18-2009, 10:43 AM

Something about playing God comes to mind...

**Grimpala** · 11-18-2009, 10:43 AM

It would still be neat though.

**Elimin8tor Z28** · 11-18-2009, 10:43 AM

Originally Posted by LSCyaL8R

You will live inside a computer.... and you will have 1Tb Internet access 24/7 oh and since you will live in the machine you will never need to sleep or eat. you can play FPS games and surf the web for all eternity!

Does that even slightly interest anyone?

IROC???

Can we still go to Youporn, Redtube, Brazzers, Bangbros, etc?

If so, then yes, that sounds great. LOL

**KahanaReef** · 11-18-2009, 10:48 AM

I don't think I'd want to be limited to life in a box and be awake 24/7 for eternity

**krese** · 11-18-2009, 10:57 AM

it really wouldn't be you though... your life would end but the consiousness inside the "system" would live on.... that still is not your consiousness as yours would have ended...

it would be like having an identical twin and you die.. the other lives on but it is not you. what is the point? might be good for people that love you because you will sort of still be around but your own consiousness is dead.

**86 IROC-Z** · 11-18-2009, 11:00 AM

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

**KahanaReef** · 11-18-2009, 11:11 AM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

That's pretty much my take on it too.

And, if the shoe were on the other foot... I don't think I'd want anyone I loved that had passed to 'still be with me' in that aspect either

I wonder how much that would cost

**krese** · 11-18-2009, 11:13 AM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

if they can simulate your mind they can figure out to add sensation... it all translates to interpreation that is either good or bad. you get a blowie and your brain tells you it is good, touch fire your brain tells you it is bad.

it all comes down to electrical impulses of on or off just like a computer.

**justinmc978** · 11-18-2009, 11:16 AM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

give it 60 years, i'd do it, i'd love to have smellovision, that would be the shit.

**Spaz** · 11-18-2009, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

this... with out the body there is no point in living...

**B34M3R** · 11-18-2009, 11:59 AM

Duh, so program a real to life simulation that you brain would be loaded into, where you can interact with all the other people who have been "uploaded", have the ability to sleep programmed in, hell by that time, they should be able to mimic all of the sensory inputs so that its the same as the real thing. Sex would be just as good! (except all the guys could be packin meat swords if they wanted and the chicks could design their own breast size before they went it)

I mean hell, if the future sucks, you could even set it in a different, more prosperous time, like you know, the year 2000, when everything was going great!

Wait a second....

**LSCyaL8R** · 11-18-2009, 02:34 PM

that's great!

**bigrondownhiller** · 11-18-2009, 02:52 PM

It would be like being in tron.

**toi tyme** · 11-18-2009, 04:00 PM

Originally Posted by 86 IROC-Z

Fuck that.

It's only your mind.

You have no body. And thus you would have none of the sensations gained through physical functions of the body. You can't taste, you can't laugh, you can't masturbate or orgasm, you can't scream bloody murder and rocket your flat screen off the desk with a single hand when someone gets a cheap kill on you in counterstrike.

As much time as you guys think I spend on the internet, I would be severely disappointed if the internet was all I had.

I don't consider myself a very religious person, but I'd rather take my chances with death, than live as an electrical circuit in a machine for the rest of eternity.

this.. to the letter.

**B34M3R** · 11-19-2009, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by toityme

this.. to the letter.

so you'd take the blue pill?

**Spaz** · 11-19-2009, 05:54 AM

i think every one is also taking this out of context... they onyl simulated a small part of the brain... not the entire thing... that would be near impossible...

**LSCyaL8R** · 11-19-2009, 07:41 AM

true but i doubt the first full human brain simulated will have the IQ of Einstein. Maybe Forest Gump.... If that. god help us if that sim is connected to the internet.... SKYNET!!!

**86 IROC-Z** · 11-19-2009, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by Spaz

i think every one is also taking this out of context... they onyl simulated a small part of the brain... not the entire thing... that would be near impossible...

Yeah but everything after the link in the first post is a hypothetical question posed by the OP.