Isle Aukate - Page 1602

[Foxenawolf]

You can copy a hard-drive's data onto a new Hard Drive but it will never be the same hard drive. It will have all the memory it will have all the data, but it will not be the same hardware.

Some say that an exact copy would be the same person, others say it wouldn't. It's a good philosophical question, one that people have been fighting with for many years, and even more now as some are working on ways to transfer a brain to a computer.

you can't transfer conciousness though. If I uploaded everything you were onto a computer your conciousness would still remain in your original body. The new copy might also have conciousness but it would not be truly transferrable. The you as you know it would always be in your body. you could probably transfer the copy back to you and get it's memories etc but your conciousness can't transfer. It's still just. a. copy. It's not the original and it never will be.

And this is how it works specifically with the Darnathi and their memory chips. The true consciousness doesn't transfer from one individual to their copied memories put on a chip.

[Tamara]

This begs the question to define what 'consciousness' is exactly, which is something that scientists are still unable to answer right now in our world.

I wonder if Beryl-Sirenidae will realize that she's likely not to be reintegrated with her normal self, and how she'll react once realization hits...

[Foxenawolf]

This begs the question to define what 'consciousness' is exactly, which is something that scientists are still unable to answer right now in our world.

I wonder if Beryl-Sirenidae will realize that she's likely not to be reintegrated with her normal self, and how she'll react once realization hits...

I'll simply just leave this here: http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff400/fv00383.gif

[TheSphinx]

"She"
"You mean I"
This is making me think.

What IS actually this Beryl? Or better, what has been inserted in this sirenidae's head? Because if it's only a replica, what prevents this Beryl to refuse disappearing once the original is restored? I'm wondering. Because of course you need the original body, this is only a way to keep assimilating information while you're, ah, "out of service", and in case you need a pair of hands to drag your body to safety. Or at least, what I perceive here is that the sirenidae-Beryl is like a doll, not the original with just a different body. If you die, people would only have something that acts like you would but it's not, actually, you. Am I right?

This is something I've danced around because it will make a lot of people sad when I confirm it. Max is Dead. The "Max" that clings to Alex and keeps her sane, is not Max. You can copy a hard-drive's data onto a new Hard Drive but it will never be the same hard drive. It will have all the memory it will have all the data, but it will not be the same hardware. The Sirenidae that believes itself to be Beryl is just that. The chip in it's head is Beryl's copied memories. It is not Beryl. The same, sadly, also applies to Max. The sirenidae that Alex clings to, is a copy of Max. Now. if Beryl's original body was revived, and the sirenidae's chip removed and "re-uploaded" into Beryl's original body. Then it would have her "interim" memories while she was a Sirenidae. Otherwise if the chip is not re-uploaded Beryl will only have the memories of her time up until she was shot in the head.

Thanks, Fox. Yes, it is indeed sad. And I don't know if it's worse for the fake person or the people around him/her...