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Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by implements on Sunday September 25, 2022 @10:38AM (#32971740)
Sad news for people hoping for a life after death, though! (ie nearly everyone)

I think it’ll be possible to create inorganic ‘brains’ that have human-like subjective experience, because to think otherwise reduces to some form of vitalism, but I doubt we’ll be able to move specific individual consciousness across technologies.

Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by Semaphor on Sunday September 25, 2022 @12:50PM (#32973215)
> (ie nearly everyone)

Are you sure about that? That does not sound right to me.

Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by implements on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:12PM (#32973479)
Well, I’m assuming the majority of people currently alive (and even more of those who have ever lived) are religious, and the majority of religions followed hold with the Heaven & Hell / Cycle of Reincarnation until Enlightenment model - and that experience in the afterlife was still recognisably ’human’.

Though, saying that, OP’s point about needing a human body to have human experiences may be correct if souls get a new human body in the afterlife - I’d just assumed liberated souls, like ghosts, had no physical form.

Re:Users reporting artifacts appearing in old images stored ... by Semaphor on Sunday September 25, 2022 @02:50PM (#32974638)
There’s a vast 49% gulf between nearly everyone and the majority.