SOUL-SEARCHING (2055) By Lane Jennings
QUESTIONS: 1) Would you transfer the contents of your brain into a machine as an alternative to death? Would you still want the power to switch yourself off
2) If transfer between machine and body were reversible would you consider it moral to use the machine as a holding area (prison, nursing home, pleasure resort) between periods of normal existence? How would you feel about exchanging bodies temporarily—for education or amusement? Or voluntarily giving up your life identity so that your body could be used to house the mind of some great artist, thinker or leader with unfinished business in the world?
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HUMAN FUTURES
