I read this article prepared to feel it was somehow incestuous and creepy, but I don't feel that way at all. I feel like it's about a mother helping her child by being a mother. I can't see anything wrong with this. This child may need a couple extra sentences to explain her family to others, but it will be normal to…

You're wrong. Our minds are not data. They're the computers. You could imitate it or copy it, but you can't move it- not without moving the brain itself. Not by any technology or theory yet known.

Substitute "subspace" for "hyperspace", and it's more Trek.

I've had this argument with people before. Your point is moot. I'm not saying the brain does anything mystical. Just the opposite. But that doesn't mean the mind can be transferred to artificial neurons. We just don't know. But based on what we know now, the brain is the mind and vice versa. Remove a brain cell and…

Like I keep saying, it makes no difference whether your brain is replaced slowly or instantly, you would still be replaced. Whether or not you would know it is something we might only know once it happens for real. And whether it would still be you is a debate for that future time too, since I assume even the…

A copy of a thing is not that thing, it is a copy. Period.

I covered this in another reply. You might not know when you were replaced, but that doesn't mean you weren't replaced. I'm sure not going to volunteer for the early trials of that one.

I gave you great examples of diminishing returns from great artists and thinkers. Give me some examples of a person whose work from 60-90 was as vital to the world as their work from 20-50?

Every life has value, but it also has an expiration date. The best of our ideas and accomplishments will live on past us. The creator of those ideas is not necessarily needed for the world to continue benefiting from those ideas.

Yeah, like I said, humanity will definitely change. But this old idea will probably never become real, barring some fantastic technological discovery we can't yet theorize. But people will definitely work toward it. I think the end result might be bad.

You won't be cheating death. You will just selfishly be making sure the world goes on with you. And that's a normal human desire, but it's selfish and unnecessary. Very few of us are too valuable to lose eventually. Most of us outlive our best contributions, and that's the natural way of the world. It may not be what…

Thank you! I was ready for a torrent of nothing but people defending the view that they would PREFER to believe in, rather than the one supported by evidence.

It doesn't matter if the replacement is gradual or instant, the result will be the same. The question is, when does it change from you accessing artificial memories to an artificial you thinking it's still the original. Tough question, I hope I never see the answer.

Uploading minds- not copying, but actually moving a person's consciousness from your body to anything else, is not science fiction- it's fantasy. It's based on the millenia-old fantasy that your mind and brain are separate things. They are not. There is no evidence for minds being able to leave brains, and there is…

Coulson becoming The Vision should be the story arc of the first season of Whedon's S.H.I.E.L.D. TV series. Who wouldn't go nuts for that?

All this is in reference to The Original Series (though the person who cited the Klingon language could have been a fan of one of the sequel shows). No other series or franchise will ever have the same impact on popular culture, or the same meaning in so many aspects of life. Sure as hell Abrams Trek never will.

That is SO much more watchable!

It sounds like a short-term study. Plus, less pesticides, especially for children, sounds like a great reason to eat organic.

It's not just about what people will complain about, as I'm sure you know. It is absolutely Not Safe for Work. It has nothing to do with art. Having an image of a naked person on one's computer screen can be considered sexual harassment and can get one fired from one's job (sometimes unfairly, sometimes deservedly…

It's going to turn out to be a really good thing that SHIELD was so ill-defined in Avengers. They'll be really unencumbered while creating what the organization is and where it came from.