Right. It should be a big no shit all lives matter. People can be so fucking stupid. Some white people will just never fucking get it.

Hell yes! Time to own our neighborhood.

Exactly what I was thinking. Cities are the places to be even if your not in the inner-city. It's where life happens.

Very Interesting especially the part about how people who are against Gentrifiers are not seen as bigots or anti-immigrants because of the switching of poor and rich. This long history perspective and a deeper dive into the current issue reminds me a lot on the discussion of cultural "appropriation" and how you can't…

Yes, that one should have been listed. I also hate how they perpetrate that myth in movies all the damn time. As someone who studied the brain in college, every time I hear this I want to go into my garage and turn on the car.

No it wouldn't be as long as the progress of science and technology continues. If traveling to other planets and throughout the universe is part of this immortality, then hell no will I get bored. Now for curious people and scientific people, they can handle some boring days but overall they will be just fine. …

Technology is moving so sloooooooooow for a lot of us. We haven't really done anything to upgrade our animal bodies and brain.

I agree. What is most frustrating is how it's not a top priority. We need a Manhattan brain emulation project and brain preservation should be practiced regularly in hospitals. "Mind Uploading" will be possible it just won't be you, but that's better than the alternative.

As soon as we can, WE SHOULD.

Caprica did do a really good job explaining the problem. Now I wish the Universe worked like on battlestar galactica where the cylon identity & consciousness is sent to a body in a tank when they are killed. But that is not the universe and laws of nature we live. Those were copies but for the show's sake they…

He said they send a lethal chemical to kill you. There is no awareness in the plastic state. It's a really really good fossilized brain down to the molecular level. Hopefully good enough to create a copy of you who thinks they once lived as physical biological being until someone explains to them they killed…

Jay- I agree with you. I see what Brad is saying and the argument goes continuity of consciousness is not important because of the examples of a person waking from a coma or someone falls in lake frozen lake and reanimates later. I would actually say they are right because I think continuity of consciousness is not…

ParryLost- wow. You articulated that so well. That is EXACTLY how I feel I just couldn't put it in those words. Actually I would go so far to say that your correct on part 1 describing the nuance on who's who. On the second part of wanting to be copied. Even though I will cease to exist at least the me the…

You're right. I wish you weren't but the evidence we have so far implies we ARE the substrate, so there is no such thing as moving or separating identity/consciousness. The mind is the brain. This theoretical process would create copies/clones. Just like twins. Just like on Star Trek. If we could actually break down…