If they invented a computer chip that could keep your Brain alive after a bodily "death", would you do it?

[Mr. Potter]

I'd figure it would try to keep the conscience, but i can't reconcile the soul differential. I wouldn't elect it.

 

[NittPicker]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

 

[LionJim]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

I was thinking my brain would be in something like a shoebox, plugged in. Electricity goes out, that’s gonna be a problem.

 

[JerseyLion]

It didn't look so great on Black Mirror. Pass.

 

[Erial_Lion]

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

Don’t knock it till you try it!

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

I'd figure it would try to keep the conscience, but i can't reconcile the soul differential. I wouldn't elect it.

Check out N22 parking lot next Saturday!

 

[BobPSU92]

A ‘70s computer chip would work for my “brain”.

 

[Connorpozlee]

My current brain? Good god, absolutely not!

 

[Mr. Potter]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

Until they create a body that would work?

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

A ‘70s computer chip would work for my “brain”.

One would think that Potter’s idea.. body dead but brain works…significant shrinkage!

 

[Woodpecker]

 

[SleepyLion]

Considering how many times my thoughts are about what my body needs physically, I would be a NO!

 

[razpsu]

I'd figure it would try to keep the conscience, but i can't reconcile the soul differential. I wouldn't elect it.

Only if they can remove the yips from my putting.

 

[JohnJumba]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

LoL

 

[LionJim]

Only if they can remove the yips from my putting, and retain our erections.

Fixed, for every man. I mean, what else is there?

 

[Big_O]

Ever watch Altered Carbon on Netflix? That’s the premise of the series l

 

[Nitt1300]

 

[Achowalogan]

We recently had an individual who had a dead brain with a moving body so I guess the opposite of that is also possible….

 

[Nitt1300]

We recently had an individual who had a dead brain with a moving body so I guess the opposite of that is also possible….

Hell. we still have that

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

We recently had an individual who had a dead brain with a moving body so I guess the opposite of that is also possible….

The old moron board was filled with them! Go to the Free-For-All sight… they are taking up residence there!

 

[psuro]

We recently had an individual who had a dead brain with a moving body so I guess the opposite of that is also possible….

We still do. Only it's worse now. A dead brain coupled with a dead soul and a dead conscience as well.

 

[PSUeng]

as a high-end ADHD person, NO!

 

[kgilbert78]

I'll note that this was discussed in the old Fred Pohl "Gateway" series that I read in Galaxy magazine back in the 1970s (which magazine was donated along with much of my science fiction collection to the Penn State Libraries Special Collections about 15 years ago). Other SF stories have also used this meme.

 

[Karl_Havok]

Absolutely. Why not, right? What could possibly go wrong? But seriously, yes.

 

[Karl_Havok]

So my brain would be alive but otherwise I’d be lying there like a lump not moving and needing other people to feed me through a tube and wipe my azz? Hard pass.

No, they put your head in a jar and build you a robot body.

 

[bdgan]

 

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