Bringing back the dead....Digitally.
"What would it be like to interact with someone who's been brought back in digital form? Some experts say it could aid the grieving process. Others worry that interacting with a virtual representation of a person who is no longer alive would only intensify feelings of sadness and loss.
Studies have shown that bereaved people can experience grief hallucinations, and there are concerns that interacting with avatars might raise the risk.
Duncan believes that, at least for most people, the experience will be akin to watching home movies and enjoying the memories that they trigger.
“Enjoying talking to past loved ones via digital media may eventually become the future version of looking through photographs of past events… It’s hard to predict the future, but just as we’ve adjusted to using Skype and cell phones I think we’ll consider it valuable to continue some connection with a person we care about.”
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Now considering the last movie I saw in a threatre was about a large green orge, Shrek, I'm not familar with these movie and or television references. I don't think I would want to be reunited with my dead merely because life has moved on and I've either healed or am in the process. I feel that having a 3D reminder might be a bad idea in many ways.
Angelface
Level 7
Apr 17, 2018
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Yeah, I don't know how that would help the grieving process.
Wildgreens
Level 8
Apr 17, 2018
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I saw that episode of Black Mirror.
I highly doubt the tech will ever be anywhere close to convincing.
stinkeye_a
Level 8
Apr 16, 2018
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I was just about to mention that same episode. That show will make you reconsider a lot of what ifs.
I was going to comment that as well. I don't remember how the episode turned out, but it was Black Mirror, so....... probably not good.
Better question if they could transfer your consciousness to a computer. Would you do it?
Joshuahenley
Level 6
Apr 16, 2018
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Like the Battlestar Galactica reboot prequel, Caprica? Not interested.
Well.. it's interesting. It has the same problem teleportation does. The computer consciousness would be a copy. You could create the illusion of transfer by deleting the original.. but then... well, you know... you're dead. Just like transferring information on disks... you don't really move it... you copy and delete. .... wait ...
... an idea .. is ... forming .... ow....
Ah! Yes! Perhaps there IS a way to "transfer" consciousness...
First MERGE with the computer and form a cyborganic neural network. Initially focus would be entrainment of the ape mind with the computer neural frame. Computer neural "frame" would be akin to an empty "frame" for a bee hive. Basically, a blank brain, formatted for slightly fancy ape interface. Then subject learns how to "inhabit" the "empty brain" through games, exercises, and such. From there it's a matter of slowly copying and deleting bits of the structure a little at a time... from your perspective it might seem as though you are "forgetting" something for a moment, and then remembering it again a moment later as you find it's new location. The whole purpose of this dance is to maintain a continuity of experience ... you will be you the whole way along the process, and their won't be a messy "duplicate" to discard at the end of it .... which might be the original, hard to be sure and it's easy to lose track... which one of us was real again? Was it you? Or me?
So this idea of one information network copying and deleting little bits of itself to move from one structure into another might sound a little out there... except... that's exactly what your body already does to regenerate itself. I mean... I don't know about you... but I used to be waaaaaaaay smaller. If we can grow and "inhabit" new tissue... what matter if it's meat or metal?
So... yeah.. If I'm frailing out, and there's a way to do that.. yeah. I would do it.
The magic button trick that looks like you are being zapped into a computer where really you die and everyone adores the perfect replica of you, that thinks it's you? ... I'll skip on that one.
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