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Originally Posted by America
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This isn't the full extent of "transhumanism". Another aspect is the use of medical science to augment and improve humans. For instance, the HRT which segued me from an aggressively sociopathic nihilist to a very nice and calm and far more economically productive human.
I do, actually, think making such therapies available to young people (youngens stand to benefit the most / experience the best results) is a fantastic investment. It is at least as sound as state investment into mental health services. It gets people interested in their own bodies and their presentation. In a good candidate, it kickstarts an aesthetic renaissance in the individual away from being a fat shit who smokes and toward a lifelong pursuit of fitness and pursuit of one's dream aesthetic. It grants people an agency over their own bodies and destinies which invites success. And it puts more pretty girls who enjoy traditional gender roles into the world.
Pretty retarded. There is nothing fundamentally organic about consciousness. It is an emergent electromagnetic system. An equivalent electromagnetic field can be generated by silicon.
Obviously, your personal experience would cease the moment your particular field-instance was terminated. But a perfect copy, be it conjured from silicon or organic matter or a thousand voices singing the right notes at a Tesla coil, of the emergent EM field your meat generates, equally sentient and equally human, would experience a continuous existence. It would experience your past, but you would not experience your future. It's the Star Trek transporter conundrum and I personally wouldn't get into one either.
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How many angels fit on the head of a pin? Even if a digital emulation were possible, that is not "consciousness". "Consciousness" is the experiencer that is rooted at the base of the electochemical reactions it is not the pathways the electrochemical signals follow and it is intrinsically rooted in the organic being. Any attempt to trabsplant experiences would merely be an echo, if it were even that.