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Originally Posted by Grapesoda
IF consciousness can be relocated
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an interesting point...but I think using a "copy" is superior...
why display an original painting and risk it being stolen/damaged when you can display a copy?....
this is the same dilemma when you reach a certain point in technology where you can store the body for example and take control of the senses without actually relocating anything...even if the consciousness can not be relocated, everything around it sure can be simulated...
your current body may be just a drone...you may be a "brain in a jar" somewhere...or like in the matrix movies there may be a plug behind your head...
living within the confinements of the real world is not something technologically advanced civilizations will continue to do...mankind may be far from this technological point but if we had the chance we would replace the real world with a simulated and controlled one...
why die in a car crash or get infected when you can be in your sterile pod and safe from actual physical harm?...you can explore the volcano and reset if you slip in to the lava?...you get the point...