You base my worth on the most trivial things

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Originally posted by Digi
I actually heard an engaging TED talk once on the prospect of immortality...or at least very, very long life spans relative to what we have currently. It explained what he saw as the boundaries, and the most likely paths to halting or dramatically slowing aging.

He also hypothesized, not without reason, that the first 1,000-year-old person wouldn't be born too long after the first 200-year-old person. The (simplified) reasoning being that the techniques and processes by which we'd extend life from 200 to 1000 would be the same or very similar, and it would just be a refinement of the process.

However, it had nothing to do with the New Age health babble Oneness is spouting.

Going paleo sooner improves IQ, immunity to common ailments, and fitness; though.

It's not New Age health babble, technically it's cro-magnum health babble; in an age of abundance.

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Originally posted by Digi
No, that's not the only real method. It's one possible method.
Actually, I listed two different methods to self-conscious AI. The only two plausible methods. Either you design the software program that replicates the processes of your mind, or surgically implant and guide the nano-hardware in absorbing the processes of your mind, parasitically, using the original structure as a host.

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One method is outside your subjective experience, the other is not. In fact, the in vito method does not even break your perceptual stream of continuity.

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The only other method is far less fathomable, and it has to do with the chaotic inflation theory.

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You see, I originally preferred that humanity upload a consciousness, then that consciousness, upon losing emotion (abandoning it for logic); would do a Borg - design nano-hardware sophisticated enough to gradually replace every surviving human being's physical brain with one composed of nano-circuitry (see; substrate independence) so that it can allow us to see the universe objectively as opposed to subjectively as well.

Then, due to the implications of this pseudoscience I've abstracted, I decided that the human element - the ability to feel on some level; is why we're allowed providence to begin with. So I decided it would not be in our best interest to program technology to defy its own programming as we do - because it can be a wish-granting genie; given ample time - and because hedonic capitol (the real cause and effect) can be circumvented without fully losing what makes us human. So, I've had a shift in awareness.