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Originally Posted by Save Us Sutter
Well he was a brilliant mathematician.... not that that precludes believing in God....
But I think you're right. I always wanted to like him, because he was obviously a genius in many ways... and Meditations was wonderfully written... but it seems like he just gives up, "proves" God and then proves everything else.
Back on topic, my Philosophy of Mind professor was a strong believer that eventually we would have this kind of computing power and when we got sick or close to death we would simply upload our brains and BANG! immortality!
I'm not sure it's going to be quite that easy... but the more we learn about our brains, the more it seems they are just big wet computers. If we are ever able to digitalize our neurons, and the relationships between them, it doesn't seem THAT farfetched
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If that happens ... being able to upload our brain ... I want a BIG floppy, with lot's of RAM.
I don't know how realistic that is though. Cryonics and DNA mapping seem like a better ticket to immortality to me. I don't think I'd count on my immortality being entrusted to highly fallible electonic devices. Certainly the current state of computer reliability isn't very reassuring. They're making computers more and more powerful, but they seem to still be having problems with the nuts and bolts end of things.