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Stephen Hawking: brain could exist outside body


	Quote: Speaking at the premiere of a documentary film about his life, the theoretical physicist said: "I think the brain is like a programme in the mind, which is like a computer, so it's theoretically possible to copy the brain on to a computer and so provide a form of life after death. "However, this is way beyond out present capabilities. I think the conventional afterlife is a fairy tale for people afraid of the dark."

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Re: Stephen Hawking: brain could exist outside body

Like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nda7w487yU0

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Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:11 pm

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Re: Stephen Hawking: brain could exist outside body

I was actually thinking of that brain from Robocop. The one that was in a column of water.

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Re: Stephen Hawking: brain could exist outside body

He means you are software and the brain is a computer. You could be downloaded and run in the cloud, like in Serial Experiment Lain. No brains in jars.

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Sun Sep 22, 2013 5:41 am

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Re: Stephen Hawking: brain could exist outside body

All this supposes that your software would remain “sane” in such an environment. Science Fiction repeatedly tells us that this may not be the case.

Also, to go back to a Dennis Potter TV play, you have to ask: who would own the copyright on such material.

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