You go to the doctor because you feel ill. He tells you you have cancer, and it's incurable. However it hasn't reached your brain yet.
As it turns out, there's a new technology out. A brain can be removed from a person and sustained in a solution bath and live a long, long time...possibly forever.
Once in this bath, they can plug you into a badass computer with all the latest and greatest bits and pieces...video card, RAM, processor, etc. You can live forever, only on the internet.
Would ya do it?
Originally posted by AThousandYoungGood question. I wouldn't, the brain is about balance and life is about death.
You go to the doctor because you feel ill. He tells you you have cancer, and it's incurable. However it hasn't reached your brain yet.
As it turns out, there's a new technology out. A brain can be removed from a person and sustained in a solution bath and live a long, long time...possibly forever.
Once in this bath, they can plug you into a b ...[text shortened]... eo card, RAM, processor, etc. You can live forever, only on the internet.
Would ya do it?
This scenario seems to go against both. Would defo do it for a while tho'.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungReminds me of one of Roald Dahl's stories.
You go to the doctor because you feel ill. He tells you you have cancer, and it's incurable. However it hasn't reached your brain yet.
As it turns out, there's a new technology out. A brain can be removed from a person and sustained in a solution bath and live a long, long time...possibly forever.
Once in this bath, they can plug you into a b ...[text shortened]... eo card, RAM, processor, etc. You can live forever, only on the internet.
Would ya do it?
no, I wouldn't do it.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungNope. But if they could hook me to a machine where I could read every book ever written, choosing which I wanted to read when, I'd probably hang out for a while!
You go to the doctor because you feel ill. He tells you you have cancer, and it's incurable. However it hasn't reached your brain yet.
As it turns out, there's a new technology out. A brain can be removed from a person and sustained in a solution bath and live a long, long time...possibly forever.
Once in this bath, they can plug you into a b ...[text shortened]... eo card, RAM, processor, etc. You can live forever, only on the internet.
Would ya do it?
You could get a lot of books online, and more and more as time goes on.
I would absolutely do it.
As for loneliness...well MMORPGs, chat rooms, e-mails, porn (hmmm...without genitals can the brain feel lust?) - that'd be the closest thing to human contact you'd have.
I guess you'd be a sort of cyborg version of Jane from the Ender's Game universe.
Originally posted by ThomasterAny specific one, or is it just the kind of thing he'd write about?
Reminds me of one of Roald Dahl's stories.
no, I wouldn't do it.
There are Lovecraftian monsters called Mi-Go (I think) which harvest human brains and make them work their machines. I imagine it's horrificly unpleasant to be that brain, it being Lovecraft and all, but if not that might be kinda cool.
I was in a Call of Cthulhu tabletop RPG once in which the protagonists find their friend with his body surgically opened, his organs put to the side, brain in a nutrient bath, attached to the speaker of a radio, which is how he was talking. AWESOME scene.
The GM said it was inspired by an actual Lovecraft story but I can't find it and he doesn't remember the name of it.