# Would you agree to be uploaded to a robot body? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 23, 2017, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518 "2017-02-23T00:40:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/21 "2017-02-23T15:15:18Z")
Just what I _don’t_ need, an excuse for my current client to expect me to work 24/7 😛 They probably wouldn’t want to pay me, either. Or whomever was “my” owner… boy would them lawyers be having a field few years… IOW, there’s a whole slew of legal matters that would need to be clarified, aside from the technical ones, before I even started to consider the moral and personal implications. Mind you: if something akin to this ever happens, I expect it to do like Dolly the Sheep and catch the lawyers and politicians reaching for the soap with their pants off. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/22 "2017-02-23T16:17:11Z")
I entered “hell yes” I don’t care if it is “really” me. As long as I have my memories and whatever level of free will I possess now then I want in. My body will wear out in the next few decades and I want to stick around and see what happens next. ---
**Author:** ![mlees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@mlees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mlees)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/23 "2017-02-23T17:18:51Z")
I would view an android with an upload that was a perfect copy of my personality and memories as exactly just that: a copy. I wouldn’t consider it “me”. While I am not opposed to having a copy of me exist after my meatbag body dies, it doesn’t really tickle my fancy, either. ---
**Author:** ![moldmonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@moldmonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moldmonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/24 "2017-02-23T17:44:45Z")
Absolutely yes, if the robotic me can enjoy the same senses as meat me. It wouldn’t be the same if I couldn’t enjoy the taste of food & drink, the sound of music, sex, etc. Maybe yes, if the senses weren’t the same. Even without the senses, there is too much out there to ever learn in a lifetime and I would like to but it would probably be a drab lonely existence. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/25 "2017-02-23T18:44:30Z")
Maybe, but I’d need my robot body to have a much cuter ass than those pictured. One can’t be expected to give up everything. ---
**Author:** ![filmore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7993a0/32.png) [@filmore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filmore)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/26 "2017-02-23T19:18:49Z")
I would do it, but only when my body was starting fail in ways that greatly diminished my quality of life. If I have lots of trouble moving around or my mind starts slipping away, I would have no problem swapping for a robot body. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/27 "2017-02-23T19:19:47Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I wanna be a ROBOT TIGER. Human style robot hosts can only be five feet tall. Because that’s the way they make them. > > (Info source: _Sealab: 2021_) Damn you! I wanted to be the first one to make a Sealab reference. I was debating between saying “Hell no, the punishment for killing a human is…1000 years frozen in carbonite!” Or simply saying “There go my nipples again!” ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/28 "2017-02-23T21:28:26Z")
I want to have my brain implanted in the body of a robot Adrienne Barbeau! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/29 "2017-02-23T21:58:56Z")
I’d rather it be something like Poul Anderson’s “Call me Joe” (which is the story that the movie Avatar screwed with). But yeah, if I keep all my memories of me (and my legal rights), why not? ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/30 "2017-02-23T22:30:49Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > For some of us, it would be a step up. Well, yes…you’d have a full robot body, instead of just the arm! ---
**Author:** ![Anxious\_Squirrel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/anxious_squirrel/32/1083_2.png) [@Anxious\_Squirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anxious_Squirrel)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/31 "2017-02-23T22:45:43Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo9hqmkEfEY) 😃 😃 😃 And hell, yes, I would love to be a robot. My name would be first on the list. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518/32 "2017-02-24T00:08:45Z")
Thank you for the answers everyone, very interesting reading. 🙂 Personally I think I would do it only if my current body was failing, I’m currently _(and not to tempt fate)_ fairly young and in decent health. Although as someone mentioned above I think I would try a non-humanoid robot body just for the experience, it should be fairly easy to switch bodies to try them out, depending I suppose on the nature of the technology involved. _(although I admit I was a little disturbed at the female character being uploaded into a robot body in a way I wasn’t regarding the male character, I think it was because she didn’t know what she was doing when she had her mind scanned and didn’t chose to be resurrected like that)_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-agree-to-be-uploaded-to-a-robot-body/780518.md?page=1)