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Bareback Werewolf
Oct 5, 2013
~*blessed by the algorithm*~
LOL if you don't think we're already living in a simulation.

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JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

Bulgogi Hoagie posted:

assuming that consciousness is actually a dynamical system arising from the interaction of individual fuzzy subsystems it should be entirely possible to gradually replace the underlying physical medium while maintaining dynamic behaviour even in intermediate states

Uh OK Poindexter. check out the big brain on this guy!

*Points @ u*

*laughter*

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!
I'm a computer. :downs:

Iron Prince
Aug 28, 2005
Buglord
poo poo doesn't matter, sure. but at least my computer consciousness can realize the ultimate dream: fuckin an anime

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

Iron Prince posted:

poo poo doesn't matter, sure. but at least my computer consciousness can realize the ultimate dream: fuckin an anime

:hfive:

Gobblecoque
Sep 6, 2011
putting your consciousness into a computer is just exchanging a fleshy meat prison for a metal prison. only death can free the consciousness and death is certain

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 12, 2001

Bareback Werewolf posted:

LOL if you don't think we're already living in a simulation.

I changed my answer to this one, this guy has it right

Hardawn
Mar 15, 2004

Don't look at the sun, but rather what it illuminates
College Slice

500 good dogs posted:

I changed my answer to this one, this guy has it right

i see 1's and 0's, but they look like those worms from the hackers movies, but only when i look into my black light posters

Ork of Fiction
Jul 22, 2013

Help computer.

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

Ork of Fiction posted:

Help computer.

Beep boop blip... whiirrrrrrr click click, fizzzzzzz.

> You have diabetus. Eat a banana.

JiveHonky
May 12, 2001

by zen death robot
Grimey Drawer

ClamdestineBoyster posted:

Beep boop blip... whiirrrrrrr click click, fizzzzzzz.

> You have diabetus. Eat a banana.

Computer, what is love?

ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

JiveHonky posted:

Computer, what is love?

Zip zap, clunk clunk clunk, beep wizz blurp..

> love is chemically identical to eating large amounts of chocolate, baby don't hurt me, baby don't hurt me, no more.

Single and LOVING IT
Apr 4, 2004
The monkeys are coming. . .
lots of people believing in souls ITT

Ruggan
Feb 20, 2007
WHAT THAT SMELL LIKE?!


If we live in a simulation, who the flying heck programmed jive honky???

unpleasantly turgid
Jul 6, 2016

u lightweights couldn't even feed my shadow ;*

Iron Prince posted:

poo poo doesn't matter, sure. but at least my computer consciousness can realize the ultimate dream: fuckin an anime

:same:

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
this is a very defeatist attitude OP. a billion copies of my mind-ware are going to spread across this universe like a virus. wither i consciously experience it or not is inconsequential

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
the plan it to make billions of copies of myself, then link them all together into a collective consciousness like the Borg. it might be a hosed up monstrosity, or it might turn into a god or something. it would be cool to find out maybe? :shrug:

a Ruti-plex

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

It's "I don't matter".

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
a transporter cant copy your consciousness
dont believe the lies of the soulless transported husks

realbez
Mar 23, 2005

Fun Shoe

gary oldmans diary posted:

a transporter cant copy your consciousness
dont believe the lies of the soulless transported husks

Wait you changed your position. What happened did you go through a transporter?

Duckbox
Sep 7, 2007

if science makes me a new body i hope it's a sexy girl body so i can spend all day in front of the mirror touching my di...

wait, gently caress

Altair Knight
Jun 1, 2006

Nooner posted:

we are all going to die so get right with the Lord while you still can

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbSPfpaKxVE

Drunk & Ugly
Feb 10, 2003

GIMME GIMME GIMME, DON'T ASK WHAT FOR

Moridin920 posted:

I've always kinda wondered this.

i looked up your nerd video game quote and the one next to it was pretty interesting

Commissioner Pravin Lal, "U.N. Declaration of Rights" posted:

As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
I will live forever as a bot in a lovely MMOROPG who griefs noobs. If it's completely indistinguishable from my real life, it is my real life.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Wait, no, I will be dead, that stupid bot is not me, what the hell was I thinking?

Onkel Hedwig
Jun 27, 2007


OP have you played SUPER HOT?

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

Good I'm glad of it, this poo poo is tedious

Professor Shark
May 22, 2012

I may as well just carve a rock replica of me before I die and tell people that's me, it'd post just as good

pop fly to McGillicutty
Feb 2, 2004

A peckish little mouse!

Computer, end holodeck simulation.
Computer, end all life support systems.
Computer, jettison all humanity into sun.

Dely Apple
Apr 22, 2006

Sing me Spanish Techno


If all I am is a nervous system at the whims of bacteria that make hormones and mind chemicals then how do I like make that happen in digispace, man

Fat-Lip-Sum-41.mp3
Nov 15, 2003
You died last night when you fell asleep and what woke up is a new consciousness with all your memories.

You can't tell the difference and it doesn't matter.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!

LegoPirateNinja posted:

You died last night when you fell asleep and what woke up is a new consciousness with all your memories.

You can't tell the difference and it doesn't matter.

Yeah, but a computer program is not you. If it 'thinks' it's you it's still mistaken. You are you.

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

Drunk & Ugly posted:

i looked up your nerd video game quote and the one next to it was pretty interesting

all the quotes from Alpha Centauri are good, you should play it

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005

realbez posted:

Wait you changed your position. What happened did you go through a transporter?
i see now that theres got to be something a transporter cant copy. regardless of there being perfect "conscious" continuity lifelong right across the transport event from the perspective of the person copied, there must be something divine there in the original that is lost

1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)

Moridin920 posted:

Are you ready for that great atomic power
Will you rise and meet your Savior in the end
Will you shout or will you cry when the fire rains from on high
Are you ready for that great atomic power


you'll be dead lol

just saying bro thats probably most of the appeal when you get right down to it. you'll be dead anyway soooooooooo why not

Peddle2thaMetal
Apr 17, 2012

ooooooooo yeaaaahhh
Don't copy that floppy

1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)

Paladinus posted:

Yeah, but a computer program is not you. If it 'thinks' it's you it's still mistaken. You are you.

maybe it is you who are mistaken ?

Rutibex
Sep 9, 2001

by Fluffdaddy

gary oldmans diary posted:

i see now that theres got to be something a transporter cant copy. regardless of there being perfect "conscious" continuity lifelong right across the transport event from the perspective of the person copied, there must be something divine there in the original that is lost

the only solution is solipsism. the transporter never existed in the first place, it is just a figment of your imagination

some bust on that guy
Jan 21, 2006

This avatar was paid for by the Silent Majority.

Phlairdon posted:

Eventually all energy in the universe will burn out and all that will be left is a cold, empty void. So pretty much anything we do to attain immortality will be futile.

There's already immortality in heaven, duh.

Don't forget to get your ashes today.

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ClamdestineBoyster
Aug 15, 2015
Probation
Can't post for 10 years!

pop fly to McGillicutty posted:

Computer, end holodeck simulation.
Computer, end all life support systems.
Computer, jettison all humanity into sun.

Click whiirrrr, buzz beep bloop

> I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. :downs:

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