Would you agree to be uploaded to a robot body?

In My Humble Opinion
21

Just what I don’t need, an excuse for my current client to expect me to work 24/7 :stuck_out_tongue: 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.

22

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.

23

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.

24

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.

25

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.

26

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.

27

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!”

28

I want to have my brain implanted in the body of a robot Adrienne Barbeau!

29

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?

30

Well, yes…you’d have a full robot body, instead of just the arm!

31

:smiley: :smiley: :smiley:

And hell, yes, I would love to be a robot. My name would be first on the list.

32

Thank you for the answers everyone, very interesting reading. :slight_smile:

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)