AI and Immortality: MindCloud

Immortality awaits! Suppose the kind corporate folks at MindCloud offer you the following "deal":



In exchange for your earthly, bodily existence (and maybe a few ducats), MindCloud will upload all of your memories, hopes, aspirations, and emotional and affective dispositions up onto a secure place in the cloud. In this place "you" will be able to explore and experience the ever-increasing contents therein, where "you" may contribute to such content by building up a new cloud-based narrative of "your life," and where "you" will also be able to satisfy virtual analogues of felt bodily urges and needs, without having actually to attend to the hassles of tending and caring for a corporeal body.



Would or would not accept such a deal? What would your concerns be? Here's what I think:



MindCloud is entertainment. MindCloud is fiction. And I can’t help but take the idea to its absolute—becoming God.



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Published on November 29, 2017 22:52
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