Would You Transfer Your Consciousness into a Robot?

[Cognisant]

Ditto.

What about this bizarre artifact of "self-awareness" that is experienced internally? This self-labeling, self-distinguishing, self-monitoring mechanism? It seems confined to the brain, as you can have other body parts destroyed/damaged removed without really changing sense of self much, but as soon as you muck with someone's CPU, well, that's the kicker?

Self awareness is initially external, once the observation/action feedback loop is established then you have a concept of self and can think in terms of self reference, that self referential thinking creates another feedback loop which gives us self determination, EVERYTHING is derived from observation because the brain is essentially a recognition engine, it receives input, formulates relationships between inputs (based upon various validity determining mechanisms) and those relationships are the basis of the properties we use to define our concepts.

The self concept is comprised of the properties used to define it, if the record of those properties (comprised of associated inputs) is lost then self referential thinking would cease and self determination would be meaningless, in effect the subject becomes a living P-zombie, people with advanced neurodegenerative conditions are like this, the fragments of their mind still functioning and unaware that the whole is not.

I could be typing away right now entirely convinced that what I'm writing makes sense and have no idea that it's utter gibberish because I'm not self conscious of my mind's dysfunctional state, like a NPC in a glitchy videogame acting out a broken script over and over.

When broken down to our parts we really are just sophisticated autonoma.

 

[nexion]

To answer the OP: yes, probably. To be honest, I really don't care too much about how one defines consciousness, it's all to fleeting and vague, as are most (all) things which have been defined. I will say, however, that making the leap to a 100% robot is far different from how I imagined cybernetic organisms coming about. I expected like, certain parts to be replaced with better biomechanical parts, etc. A few years back I decided that if someone wanted to start testing with this, I would volunteer in an instant. I have no clue why. Maybe I find life really that boring?

But I still don't want to live forever. You can pull the plug on my consciousness in 25-50 years.

 

[Marshall]

Transfer my consciousness for what? So I can live even longer in this meaningless world fulfilling our meaningless existence. Wait until we die a meaningless death never to return to consciousness, even more nothingness awaits us in the after life.

 

[Rook]

Aah yes, but to extend the adventure in the form of a robot is surely more exciting than the inherent void that is set to swallow us?

 

[Pyropyro]

Sure why not? It's like a mechanical lich-hood There's lots of stuff to discover in this Universe and a self-repairing body would serve me well.

 

[Deep_in_thought]

I personally would, so long as it was an organic robot so I could maintain my senses. Wetware technology I would think would make this possible, being squishy and full of liquids may be considered fragile, but I prefer it to being solid and metallic.

 

[paradoxparadigm7]

Would my consciousness retain memory of my past in a sensing, deteriorating body? If so, that might be the definition of hell. A type of "I must scream but have no mouth". The memories of physical touch and the craving of touch would drive me mad as my robot body could in no way connect and my isolation would be so utterly complete that I would want my consciousness snuffed out. That's also assuming I would continue to have emotions.