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Old 04-03-2016, 03:58 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Kurtzweil is fun and makes some interesting points but when he starts saying he's going to take supplements so he can live long enough to have his consciousness downloaded into a computer... you know....
I guess no one's told him that the version of his consciousness in the computer would be merely a copy of him, and not actually him? Unless this computer involves some kind of nutrient-filled container for my surgically-removed brain, then I'm not interested in cloning my thoughts.
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