"Does Altered Carbon show any ambiguity about the idea" Topic
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| Tango01 | 07 Mar 2018 9:47 p.m. PST |
… of personalities being stored and downloaded into new bodies being the same person or not? "Does Altered Carbon show any ambiguity about the idea of personalities being stored and downloaded into new bodies being the same person? Or it's completely assured they are the same person? I mean, I dont know if it's a good comparison, but if I take the hard drive from a computer and put it into another, even when I'll have the same softwares and files (which might run or not by the way), it isnt the same computer. Does Altered Carbon play with this idea or it's assured through the whole story than the personalities being stored and downloaded into new bodies are the same persons? If I recall correctly, other sci fi stories which used a similar idea (passing one person's memories from one body into another) like "The 6th day", created new persons, not the same one…."
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 Editor in Chief Bill   | 07 Mar 2018 10:02 p.m. PST |
Just transplant the head. |
| Bowman | 08 Mar 2018 5:45 a.m. PST |
Not really science is this? Might as well discuss Tie fighters making sounds in outer space. |
| Tango01 | 08 Mar 2018 10:29 a.m. PST |
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 StoneMtnMinis  | 08 Mar 2018 3:21 p.m. PST |
 Editor Bill
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| Charlie 12 | 08 Mar 2018 7:38 p.m. PST |
Not really science is this? Might as well discuss Tie fighters making sounds in outer space. For some, this tripe is what they consider "science". And tragically so…. |
| Patrick R | 09 Mar 2018 3:00 a.m. PST |
Remember that tiny you that was born, grew up a bit to around the age of a toddler ? That you is now essentially dead. All the cells that came with that body have long been replaced, gradually so that you still carry over the memory, but the person you once were has ceased to exist as all the cells have died off and have been replaced by new ones. We already are a duplicate of a previous human being, except we share memories and it's so gradual we don't even notice the switch. |
| Bowman | 09 Mar 2018 8:36 a.m. PST |
Generally correct, and a fascinating concept. We do have some stem cells that live throughout our entire lives, but that may be a case of "the exception proving the rule". Our Neurons last for decades. So for me, at age 60, I most likely don't have any of the brain cells that I started with as an infant. At the other extreme, certain blood cells only last for about 2 weeks. The rest of our cells vary in between those extremes. Since all the cells in our body have widely varying lifespans, we are always in the process of "becoming" and we never truly "are". At least on a cellular level. How's that for a Zen moment?  |
| Tango01 | 09 Mar 2018 11:03 a.m. PST |
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