a few months ago i read an article about this in discover magazine.
as i realized the implications it gave me a sick, eerie feeling.. in short, suppose memories of the deceased are collected and downloaded into a program?.
what you are about to see is a prototype program for what i suspect may be robotic construction for the near future of resurrecting loved ones who have passed on.
Mind uploading or whole brain emulation (mind transfer)
"Since a half mouse neural network model was simulated in a supercomputer in 2007, at a simulation speed of one tenth of real time, supercomputers are expected to reach sufficient capacity for whole human brain emulation within a few years."
"Most suggestions for scanning technologies would destroy the original biological brain."
i can only say i'm new here in the sense i've just been able to join.
i have actually followed this forum for over a year now.
i've tried joing several times but must have been doing something wrong, so i thought i'd try one more time and it finally worked.. i was a born-in jw.
Welcome to the board.
Glad to hear you slipped through the briar patch.
open question, please list scriptures that give you that direction or what you base your answer upon.
i know there are so many different viewpoints on this forum, it will be interesting for all to see them and what scriptures or reasoning they are based on.. some examples are,.
do you feel only one needs to have love, faith in jesus, and those basics and that is what you must proclaim.. do you feel true knowledge must be taught to all, and as much as is known.
Larsinger: "people will rush to get into God's Kingdom".
Jesus said his kingdom was not of this world. I don't recall that he ever made mention of coming back here to set one up. God's kingdom is not Jesus's kingdom. WHy do some people use god and jesus interchangeably?
http://www.nature.com/ajg/journal/v96/n9/full/ajg2001686a.html.
"...in the beginning there was the bible.
in numbers 11:3135 the first written report of the plague of quail poisoning appeared.
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a few months ago i read an article about this in discover magazine.
as i realized the implications it gave me a sick, eerie feeling.. in short, suppose memories of the deceased are collected and downloaded into a program?.
what you are about to see is a prototype program for what i suspect may be robotic construction for the near future of resurrecting loved ones who have passed on.
Just think....in a post-apocalyptic world....in a silicone body
There would be no worries of food shortages or whether monsanto is poisoning the food because your body could be made to run on solar and wind power rather than food.
You would never be sick because plastic would be impermeable to viruses and bacterias. There would be no need for hospitals or pharmaceuticals.
Even if the oceans are black tar and all the fish and birds are dead, you could be programmed to envision the past world in a holographic form.
What a perfect work force of slaves you would all be!
mr. flipper here again.
when in the org.
we were all told to fear jehovah .
The fear of living forever. I would not want to.
if you do not get out of her, you will receive part of her plagues.
if this is near to happening, and if god reveals to his people before he acts, then it would be important to understand this would it not?
not that your condemned if you don't just from that scripture rev 18:4, but god is intending to do something and as a kindness giving a warning.
EoM, The "plagues" are not something futuristic. They have been on-going for centuries. Anyone who gets involved with religious domination and voluntarily submits to the authority of someone else to claims to speak for god or know him personally...is experiencing "plagues". Is the life of a JW not tormented in such a way? Or how about the people who had to pay indulgences, a "sin tax", or atone for their sins by working for the church for years. Same principle when it comes to building KH's or being approached for big donation when you want to get reinstated. That is what is meant by plagues.
Plague means more than just having a flu. Plagues are burdens and harassments.
"is this seat taken?".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nm4rqpgtn_k.
I took baked beans to a Messianic Jewish picnic once. They flipped out when somebody found I seasoned with pork. Well heck...I didn't think they were supposed to be that Jewish! They didn't exactly take their clothes off, but it was a recipe for disaster!
Very funny video, FHN.
the co yesterday had proof, that we are definetely in the last seconds of the end times.. he said: "never in the history of mankind, has all the signs of jesus' "end times" happened simultaneously".. earthquakes have happened, pestilence same, wars same, etc etc............. but now all these are being seen together and alarmingly so.
Since when is an SUV powered by oatmeal?
There's enough damn oil in the gulf to have kept the planet running for another thousand years. And I bet the WT and the GB have a lot of stock in those damn oil companies. Pin the tail on the damn donkey where it belongs!
a few months ago i read an article about this in discover magazine.
as i realized the implications it gave me a sick, eerie feeling.. in short, suppose memories of the deceased are collected and downloaded into a program?.
what you are about to see is a prototype program for what i suspect may be robotic construction for the near future of resurrecting loved ones who have passed on.
JWFacts
That was very interesting information; I did not know that WT teaches "humans are just a collection of memories and emotions that reside as a memory within God." Now I understand where you are coming from. Those teachings I assume, also imply that "God" is an external being. That WT teaching, like so many others, seems flawed. It would imply that we do not actually exist and that we are a figment of someone's elses imagination. Grossly flawed. Purposely obtuse.
You said "the robot is not exactly the same as a resurrected human."
JWFacts, that's where the cruel trick becomes apparent! The robot is not your idea of what resurrection should be! BUT, it could be the idea of the resurrection that has been intended all along!
Religious leaders have allowed many ideas to be subjective and that's why you have only been given hints along the way. No details. It has all been left to your imagination.
This prototype in the film could very well be the intended resurrection. Your memories and emotions are what make you---you. It's your inner core. Your essence. And this new body does seem to fit other aspects of the resurrection promise----silicon could be the solution to "eternal youth". Barbie and Ken do not make babies. And they don't have any genetalia, either. Perhaps these new bodies will be from actual human cells that are cloned and then plasticized.
No more pain, no more sorrow. With a plastic body maybe there would be no nerve endings and no pain if your leg breaks. No tears, of course not. No body fluids. Flesh and blood cannot enter the Kingdom. No sorrow...memories can be selectively downloaded or even erased. Your wife gets DF'd, they erase her memory of you. Viola! Shunning made easy.
