Carl Sagan on life after death

[Cainkane1]

http://www.bauleros.org/saganenfermedad.html

I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert and afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Consider the possibility that some future civ will be able to take brain scans and recreate brains - organic or synthetic or artificial - from them. Sure, that won't be 'you' per se, but it will be a decent approximation of you.

 

[Towlie]

http://www.bauleros.org/saganenfermedad.html

Ack! Embedded music!

Plus there's a dark vertical bar running through the text, obscuring part of it, that shows up with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Chrome.

What a terrible web page.

Try this instead: http://blog.rarezas.org/?p=16

 

[Cainkane1]

Consider the possibility that some future civ will be able to take brain scans and recreate brains - organic or synthetic or artificial - from them. Sure, that won't be 'you' per se, but it will be a decent approximation of you.

It may be a copy of you but that isn't the tpe pf immortality we see in religious text is it?

 

[Dorian Gray]

How should anyone know? A metaphor in Hebrew translated into English and processed through different versions... could mean anything.

 

[Dorian Gray]

Try this:

 

[Roboramma]

Consider the possibility that some future civ will be able to take brain scans and recreate brains - organic or synthetic or artificial - from them. Sure, that won't be 'you' per se, but it will be a decent approximation of you.

That may be possible in the future, but it isn't now. And between then and now the information a dead person's brain will be irreparably lost to decay.

So, in the future? Maybe. Today? No. And even more "no" for Carl Sagan.

 

[Towlie]

That reminds me of when the mice wanted to replace Arthur Dent's brain with a simple mechanical brain so that they could dice his real brain up and find the Question. Zaphod says "You won't know the difference. You'd be programmed not to."