Would you like to upload your consciousness into a superior-in-all-ways body? Faster reflexes, more robust to disease, stronger, more and heightened senses, able to engage with reality in more ways, etc.
Even if you wouldn’t, I think most people would, really, except for only the “fear of the unknown” aspect that it’s never been done before, in the same way that people were terrified that trains were “too fast” and the speed would crush their occupants, when they were first invented.
See, the experiment is already being run. People exercise their bodies. People exercise their minds to become stronger. This happens by people’s own free wills. They actively choose to have better bodies and minds, insofar as it’s facilitated by physics, technology, and time limitations.
Pretend you’re an ant. Would you like to become a human? I think: probably. It seems a massive upgrade in every conceivable way. As with many such transformative processes, there is a painful one-time experience as your mind is uploaded. Your ant body is destroyed in the process.
Now compare this situation to “an ant dies and a human is born”, in the regular manner these things happen every day.
Now imagine that not just you, but you and 200 of your ant buddies will undergo this consciousness uploading procedure, and become not 200 consciousnesses, but one unified being.
Would you like to upload your consciousness into a superior-in-all-ways body? Faster reflexes, more robust to disease, stronger, more and heightened senses, able to engage with reality in more ways, etc.
Even if you wouldn’t, I think most people would, really, except for only the “fear of the unknown” aspect that it’s never been done before, in the same way that people were terrified that trains were “too fast” and the speed would crush their occupants, when they were first invented.
See, the experiment is already being run. People exercise their bodies. People exercise their minds to become stronger. This happens by people’s own free wills. They actively choose to have better bodies and minds, insofar as it’s facilitated by physics, technology, and time limitations.
Pretend you’re an ant. Would you like to become a human? I think: probably. It seems a massive upgrade in every conceivable way. As with many such transformative processes, there is a painful one-time experience as your mind is uploaded. Your ant body is destroyed in the process.
Now compare this situation to “an ant dies and a human is born”, in the regular manner these things happen every day.
Now imagine that not just you, but you and 200 of your ant buddies will undergo this consciousness uploading procedure, and become not 200 consciousnesses, but one unified being.