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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by golergka on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:39PM (#10200729)
> if that "person" would be interested enough to even stay alive

If you "ressurect" someone's brain, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive — and people usually prefer being alive to being dead.

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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by mattdw on Thursday September 10, 2015 @11:56PM (#10201941)
But with a completely different set of sensory input, and under a whole different set of constraints.
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Re:Why Stanislaw Lem’s futurism deserves attention by lotsofcows on Friday September 11, 2015 @05:57AM (#10202841)
Your brain is not you. If you resurrected an entire body, whether virtually or otherwise, with all the the myriad microorganisms, etc that implies, it should behave like the person behaved when it was alive.
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