No matter how rich or lucky I am, my lifetime is capped. No soft or hard fork can inflate my healthy living years to 1000.
It's important to make each minute count.
I agree with the second part, not necessarily with the first.
there was no crypto before Satoshi
there was no www before early nineties
there was no PCs just 43 years ago
Check out Altered Carbon (read the book before watching the show) or even more original Schild's Ladder (both published in 2002). Can you transfer your mental state to a different substrate? A fascinating topic.
The topic is fascinating indeed. Some gentlemen in this forum are a valuable source of enriching reads, fiction or essay.
Not sure if the transfer of a human mental state to a different substrate is even possible in principle. I guess in principle it is, if we keep a reductionist stance. But apart from the feasibility during our own lifetime, which already seems dubious to put it mildly, I think we are far from understanding the relationship between such mental states and our conscience.
Is consciousness an emerging quality? Does it have to happen once a system reaches a certain threshold of complexity? How, where is it felt? Where is the
qualitative content of "blue" when I perceive blue? The retina, the cones, the nerve, the visual cortex, the other thingamabob and... and what? WHO will feel MY feelings? Me or the other substrate? What,
I am the other substrate? No, I am
I! Or am I?
This gets so close to metaphysics that I feel inadequate. Assuming I'll be dead, say, 200 years from now seems more reasonable and useful as an assumption, even if it comes across as bearish.
I'm no bear
I swear
I just don't know how far I'll fare.
In utter confusion, I'll check out your reading suggestions at the very least. Thanks.
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