A question about reincarnation

[kralaro]

Originally Posted by kralaro

Many modern-day scientists have concluded that our universe will get dissolved and even the atoms will be ripped apart (due to the expansion of our universe);

I wrote this because I was giving logic that even if any modern technology "reduce the body's ageing process while rapidly healing any injuries received" but still this universe will end.

[wolfmanthe1st]

Immortaility will not be achieved until a person has learned all their lessons and are ready to ascend. At that time they will have graduated from the wheel of rebirth (reincarnation) and their physical carbon-based 3rd dimension will have been fully converted to silicon-based structure and they will exist in the 5th dimension and will be very much a light being. So in reality no technology will make a person immortal it can only lengthen their life.

This is perhaps a bit of an aside, but a number of artificial intelligence scientists expect to be able to 'upload' their consciousness onto the web within their lifetimes, creating a kind of immortality.

I'll see if I can find a link about it and post it.

To my mind, this seems like a kind of captivity that is not at all appealing but they are not kidding about it and seem to think it's a good idea.

Here's a fairly dense Wiki article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading

And here's a Popular Science article about it:

http://www.popsci.com/technology/art...obots-and-soon

Also, read anything by Ray Kurzweil to get the flavor of this kinda creepy direction in information science.

Originally Posted by pgrundy

a number of artificial intelligence scientists expect to be able to 'upload' their consciousness onto the web within their lifetimes, creating a kind of immortality.

To my mind, this seems like a kind of captivity that is not at all appealing but they are not kidding about it and seem to think it's a good idea.

From what I can gather this would not create immortality for the individual concerned, it would simply make a copy of their personality on computer. It's similar to making a clone of someone. The original person still exists, and will die in time, but now there is a "copy" of him. Identical twins, or clones, do not share the same consciousness. They are both individuals.