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7/19/2013 12:48:54 AM
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How do you think religion would deal with bio-synthetic immortality?
So we see this concept in sci-fi some times, and here about it now and then in some news articles, the idea being that we may eventually escape the decay of our bodies by either transferring our minds to machines, or maintaining them indefinitely with machines.
Were this technology to arise in our lifetimes, how do you think religion would handle it? I would argue that one of the most appealing thing about religion to most people is it's ability to address the fears and anxiety people have about death. Were technology to ever completely supplant/make irrelevant this function of religion, would religion as a whole reject the technology, or embrace it as the realization of their desires? Does the answer change with the religion?
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6 RepliesI don't think there's a possible way for any organic part of the body to last forever, so I'm assuming that we would all theoretically have to have our minds turned into data and loaded into a robotic body. After a while I feel like being a mind in a tin can would get old. Imagine all the things we wouldn't be able to do. I'd much rather die a human than live forever as a robot... No offense to robots. I just like eating food and having emotions and stuff like that that robots are incapable of.
