Jun 29 2009, 02:50 PM
QUOTE(robertngo @ Jun 27 2009, 11:26 PM)
If we can upload our mind into a new cloned bodies when we die, then we will have achive inmortality, this is the greater achivement of the human cloning process in my view, but there will be to many moral and religious question on this, even if the technical process can be perfect.
if you can live forever does it devalue the meaning of life? this is the question that will be hard to answer. or a even more interesting one is if you clone yourself and there is two you, are the two the same person, what happen to your property right, do you guys now have share ownership of everything you have?
i don't think we could achieve immortality by "uploading our mind" into new bodies. imo, even if we can recreate our mind in another form, like digitally for example, it wouldn't really be ours, it's merely a copy of our memory while our true consciousness will always bound to our self. when we die, our consciousness ends there. the copied memory will be another version of our consciousness once transferred to another body, unnoticeable to the clone, but our own original self (the consciousness) stay dead and won't be transferred to the other body. in other word, it's not a continuous process. if you can live forever does it devalue the meaning of life? this is the question that will be hard to answer. or a even more interesting one is if you clone yourself and there is two you, are the two the same person, what happen to your property right, do you guys now have share ownership of everything you have?
even if the clones retains the memory of the original person, i don't think we should think of him as the same person as the original.
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