The Curse of the Flesh

[Eddie Teach]

See sig.

[The Brain]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, I accepted it.

[Admiral Yi]

Trippy dude.

[Syt]

How similar to a human body would the robot vessel be on a scale from "indistinguishable from an actual human body" to "box on wheels with a basic webcam and mic/speaker setup to communicate with the outside world"?

[celedhring]

Push comes to shove you can just run videogames in your brain. 

[Syt]

Push comes to shove you can just run videogames in your brain. 

Well, you want to avoid a William and Mary situation.

[Maladict]

Provided I keep my memory and mental faculties, am in full control and self-reliant, and have the ability to end it when I've had enough, I might consider it.

[Tamas]

Is it a copy? If yes then maybe if my family wants me to. Otherwise what's the point? Unless my brain is implanted into a robot body and kept immortal there, it would not be me, just a robot copy of me. I'd still die.

[Josquius]

Do I need a deformed pseudo-human in a jar inside my chest?

[Darth Wagtaros]

there was an episode of Sealab 2021 that dealt with just this serious issue.

[Razgovory]

Is it a copy? If yes then maybe if my family wants me to. Otherwise what's the point? Unless my brain is implanted into a robot body and kept immortal there, it would not be me, just a robot copy of me. I'd still die.

The copy will be an AI which means it will be indistinguishable from the normal you except that it will be terrible at computer games.

[crazy canuck]

there was an episode of Sealab 2021 that dealt with just this serious issue.

Also a couple of very good Dark Mirror episodes - one with the benefits of doing it and one with the hell of it all.

[DGuller]

Is it a copy? If yes then maybe if my family wants me to. Otherwise what's the point? Unless my brain is implanted into a robot body and kept immortal there, it would not be me, just a robot copy of me. I'd still die.

The copy will be an AI which means it will be indistinguishable from the normal you except that it will be terrible at computer games.

So the copy is going to be exactly like the real Tamas?

[Habbaku]

 

[Caliga]

Is it a copy? If yes then maybe if my family wants me to. Otherwise what's the point? Unless my brain is implanted into a robot body and kept immortal there, it would not be me, just a robot copy of me. I'd still die.

Right.  This is the same reason why I contend that Star Trek-style teleporters wouldn't work.  You'd be killed the moment of teleportation, and the thing that materializes at the far end is an exact replica of you, but is not you.