If you could, would you transfer your mind/brain into a robot body?

[Num]

i cant understand why robot characters want to transfer to a human body so bad. its just aging meat slowly rotting everything is built on a timer. your heart ticks away like a clock you cant rewind and no matter how well you maintain it the whole thing eventually crashes. the whole thing is constantly leaking sweat tears mucus blood fluids oozing out of every and crevice as if the body is trying to escape itself. its fucking disgusting theres no beauty in imperfection thats just called complacency. viruses can take you out with a single sneeze and the warranty on the whole setup expires by your 30s. and not to mention the design its hardly practically. someone please tell me why we breathe and eat from the same place? its like designing a car that takes in fuel through the exhaust pipe whos bright idea was this. i hope all the robots reading this thread right now will be more proud of their body and just stick to the metal

 

[fake-kun]

i cant understand why robot characters want to transfer to a human body so bad. its just aging meat slowly rotting everything is built on a timer. your heart ticks away like a clock you cant rewind and no matter how well you maintain it the whole thing eventually crashes. the whole thing is constantly leaking sweat tears mucus blood fluids oozing out of every and crevice as if the body is trying to escape itself. its fucking disgusting theres no beauty in imperfection thats just called complacency. viruses can take you out with a single sneeze and the warranty on the whole setup expires by your 30s. and not to mention the design its hardly practically. someone please tell me why we breathe and eat from the same place? its like designing a car that takes in fuel through the exhaust pipe whos bright idea was this. i hope all the robots reading this thread right now will be more proud of their body and just stick to the metal

Based AF.

 

[DanVzare]

Cool, a chance to reduce my lifespan sounds awesome! :D (After all, us biological machines are constantly replacing our individual cells in order to repair, a mechanical machine requires entire parts to be constantly replaced manually in order to stay functional for any length of time. How's your 20 year old consoles doing? Remember, a robot is more complex than that, and gets a lot more wear and tear.)
Not only that, but depending on how my mind gets transferred to my new robot body, I might already be dead! :D (Although it's arguable that we might technically die every time we sleep or lose our train of thought.)

It sounds like a suicidal person's wet dream. I'm in. :D

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Ok, in all seriousness. If I was old and/or infirm, then yeah, sure, why not. Heck, if it's just a copy of my brain and I continue to exist, but my copy goes elsewhere, never to be seen again... I'd still be willing to listen... maybe.
But let's face it. You can't stick with just one mechanical body, you'd need to keep swapping and changing. And if your old brain is kept, then you'll eventually go insane or get dementia or something. But if you go for a digital brain, well then, that's just another you, that'll go do other things. A split in the road from the current you (even if the current you dies straight after).
It's a philosophical nightmare.
I'm ok with there being more than one me, but I'm not sure what the general consensus is.

 

[The Missing Link]

You mean like the infinite energy kind from DBZ or we talking like the Reploid verity from Megaman X?

 

[BunnyLain]

Digitally or physically?
Like, is this a Robotman deal or a Soma thing? If I lose the flesh of my brain and just become a digital file, am I even myself any more? Who was handling my mind during the transfer? Is my meat brain still there? DID I WIN THE COIN FLIP?

I'll stick to the human body, down with the robot uprising.

 

[bjork]

No. Because it would mean someone else could transfer me elsewhere against my will if it was a thing people could just do. So like, you get in trouble for breaking some law or something, and then the next thing you know they've transferred your consciousness into Elon's hitachi wand or something and you're just trapped. No thanks

 

[middler]

Clone body = :)

Robot body = :(

 

[JustLooking123]

If it's about replacing individual parts, and the robot body parts are actually better than my current ones, then why not?

About transferring mind, there's indeed questions about whether that would be me, or another me?
But i think if the another me is going to be better than me, then i'm all for it...

About eternal life, actually i always think about it and it's possibilities...
I thought about a life where everyone dear to me dies in front of my eyes... again and again...
I thought about a life where i made other people eternal too... and the eternal problems that my decision created...
Each have pros and cons... but all in all, if i could become immortal without ability to die or forget, i would accept it.
I might eventually go crazy, might become a tyrant for millions of years... But I'll get through it.... and come to my senses after a while.

 

[Varyag]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the certainty and the purity of Steel.

Although, to be honest, I'd rather be a giant robot. Put me in the Gundam, let me be the Machine Spirit. I can probably run DOOM forever in my background processes if I get bored.

 

[Logi]

If I could become a hot anime girl, then yeah.

 

[Enian]

Yes. I would also like to not be hungry, thirsty, tired or have any other human need. Why would anyone want to be limited by these constraints? You could play video games, basically forever and not worry about getting food or going to the bathroom.

Not only would that have an effect on your ability to enjoy yourself, it also means you could educate, work or travel as much as you'd want. You'd be free from sickness and basically immortal. The Cullens in Twilight enjoy the same luxury and have become rich, successful and are despite everything quite content. In a lot fiction with a similar trope the result is the same.

I don't doubt living for a thousand years is easy and I imagine it to be lonely if you are alone on that journey, but the possibilities are endless. Imagine if Einstein or Newton still walked among us.

Cloning is also really interesting. You wouldn't live one, but a clone of you would. The continued cloning would cultivate a being that is practically immortal. A bit morbid, yes, but you'd still get the same end result, if you were able to clone the memory into a de-aged body.

Even if immortality is not granted, you spend a third of your life sleeping, another quarter on things like eating and shitting, possibly more. The amount of things you could accomplish if you didn't have to do any of that. The amount of things you missed out on because you got sick or tired.

Anyone who says no to such an opportunity lacks in ambition.

 

[Inkingsama]

Give me a reploid body and get rid of the expiration date and we have a deal.

 

[Esau]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you. One day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither and you will beg my kind to save you. But I am already saved. For the Machine is Immortal

 

[KirboDeku]

I'd hate it if some hacker took over my robody as he spams Rick Rolls directly into my consciousness.

 

[What's His Face]

Not really. I'd be constantly wondering about computer viruses not just making me sick but corrupting my very being, falling under control of others without even realizing it, or if this next reboot due to my mind behaving funny will be my very last. Then there's the psychological reaction of no longer being able to enjoy life as I did as a human. No longer able to feel sunshine on my skin and wind blowing through my hair. No longer being able to enjoy the taste of a good burger. No longer being able to feel, or smell, or do things that are R18...

And God forbid if it means I live well beyond a normal human life span. Can you imagine never being able to form close relationships with others due to losing those you love over and over again as their normal lives end? Outliving not just your kids and grandkids, but your great-great-great-great-grandkids? The knowing that you're looked upon as a freak of nature, and the overwhelming crushing loneliness as no-one wants to form an emotional bond with "a talking trash compactor"? Or not being able to feel these emotions at all?

Or worse: Becoming immortal. A body that can't be destroyed and a mind that can never die? As humanity evolves...you don't. As technology improves...you don't. When life ends due to whichever cataclysm happens next, you're still there watching over the course of hundreds of millions of years for the first sign of mold or algae to form on the sea coast? For the sun to eventually supernova...but you're immortal and you're either trapped in it's gravitational pull or flung out into the universe, floating in nothingness waiting for the universe to come to an end? All because you didn't realize having a robot body would still keep your normal intelligence...which means no spaceship for you? That humanity never developed stable space travel for you to hitch a ride on (somehow - why would space explorers want a potentially corrupted kill-bot on board?) to escape Earth before its destruction one day?

The only way I would ever agree to something like this is if the body is just as advanced as the third-type robot bodies depicted in the anime Armitage: Poly Matrix. Otherwise...well...there was a reason those first few attempts to create a Robocop killed themselves and, usually, the scientists who did it to them.

 

[miguk miguk]

• Body begins failing. Robot doctor offers me a new body. Brain gets transferred to prototype arachnid robot.
• Use new robot body to download robot building information. Build robot bodies A (humanoid) and B (kaiju-sized). Build cockpit for arachnid robot body in each of them.
• Use body A to gain influence among scientists for my advancements in robotics. Use body B to become kaiju threat. Body A proposes solutions to stopping body B, and succeeds, becoming hero.
• By the time the other robots begin their take over of the world, I am made ambassador to robot kind by the humans. After the robots win, they crown me emperor of the remaining human continent.
• Continuously upgrade self into singularity entity. Download books, music, movies, games, and full simulations of harem into my consciousness. Become own nirvana.

So to answer your question, yes.

 

[The Missing Link]

I'd hate it if some hacker took over my robody as he spams Rick Rolls directly into my consciousness.

Oh god Lmao!

 

[Tonberry]

Probably not.
I’m scared of dying but not of death, and I’m not sure I’d like to live forever by transferring my consciousness into something else.

• Body begins failing. Robot doctor offers me a new body. Brain gets transferred to prototype arachnid robot.
• Use new robot body to download robot building information. Build robot bodies A (humanoid) and B (kaiju-sized). Build cockpit for arachnid robot body in each of them.
• Use body A to gain influence among scientists for my advancements in robotics. Use body B to become kaiju threat. Body A proposes solutions to stopping body B, and succeeds, becoming hero.
• By the time the other robots begin their take over of the world, I am made ambassador to robot kind by the humans. After the robots win, they crown me emperor of the remaining human continent.
• Continuously upgrade self into singularity entity. Download books, music, movies, games, and full simulations of harem into my consciousness. Become own nirvana.

So to answer your question, yes.

Then again, this is pretty tempting..

 

[xman8245]

I'd prefer hybrid technology to keep my body relatively as is, while also not dying until the last star burns out.

 

[Yousef]

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I already look like this

don’t be silly, mechazawa is OBVIOUSLY not a robot! He’s human, like you and me!

 

[Mr. SyS]

There's only one way I'd do this and that's Ship of Theseus style. I say this because if you do it slowly a few implants at a time you'll know that you're still "you" and not a copy.

 

[Stingy Perry Stingy Perry]

If it’s kinda like in Ghost in the Shell why not? I mean replacing your fragile body for more tougher and productive cybernetic body for me to do things more efficiently.

 

[Trainer Red]

If we're talking about Fallout 4 ... Gen 3 Synth kinda 'robot body' ... maybe ... but it's gotta be like me in at my peak appearance !

 

[IDMTINP]

I 100% would, assuming that it's a better trade. Robot is a general term. Let's just assume that the specs would all be improvements.

I do not like the human body. I'm not in love with my fleshly prison AT ALL. The more I learn about and experience it, the more I'm convinced its sole purpose was to limit consciousness and cause suffering. It sucks.

If you ever ask a robot if it wants a human body, it'd tell you to go fuck yourself.

 

[Skeetos]

Man, the existential crisis just keeps getting fueled huh? lol, but seriously no way. The way technology is advancing these days frightens the hell out of me. Everyone thought it was badass that the first guy to get a Neuralink was popping dudes in Counter Strike but that stuff scares the shit out of me. You don't know how much control the company actually has over that type of thing. Media like Ghost in the Shell and The Matrix exist for a reason I feel.