My next goal is to help people connect their brains directly to computers.
I think immortality should be seen from the standpoint of consciousness; for without consciousness in effect we are dead. Therefore if we can prolong consciousness indefinitely then we are indefinitely existing.
Consider that when we are in deep profound dreamless sleep, we are in effect dead to ourselves, and to others only a lump of flesh. Similarly also when we are in a comatose state, in general anaesthesia, in a fainting spell, being knocked out cold: in all these instances if we do not regain consciousness, then we are dead.
What is consciousness? To know the answer we just have to consider all the things we are while conscious which we are not while unconscious.
Before anything else then, consciousness is being aware of our inner environment and also our outer environment. To be aware of our outer environment we need the senses, sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch, and for our inner environment we need, at the risk of being solipsistic, also the external senses, but very important the self-same consciousness itself as some kind of a super sense, by which we are aware of being in pleasure, in pain, in peace, worrying, angry, etc.
Next component of consciousness is memory, both the memory content of cognitive data and the faculty of accessing these data.
At this point, I think we must distinguish two spheres of consciousness in every individual, first, the generic consciousness, and second, the proprietary consciousness.
The generic consciousness is that whereby we are aware, as I said earlier, of our inner world and our outer world by our senses and our very self-same consciousness as a super sense.
The proprietary consciousness consists in the possession of and access to the memory data whereby we know ourselves to be ourselves, our name, our family identity consisting of the knowledge of who are the members of our family by consanguinity and by affinity, and all the records of residence, education, work, social activities, etc., which make us more and more an entity constituted of the identifying data that come to us in life and we achieved in the course of life.
Conclusion is that if our biological body is gone, but we have preserved some kind of an object or even a device whereby it is conscious of its inner and outer environments and it possesses all the memory data of ourselves making up our idenity, and it can access these data, in other words, an object or device that holds within itself in a dynamic fashion all the features of generic and proprietary consciousness by which Susma is Susma and no other entity, then we shall have achieved immortality even without a biological body and brain.
Susma aka Pachomius2000
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