# Would you download your mind/brain into a robot body? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 18, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349 "2008-08-18T01:21:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/21 "2008-08-18T19:41:55Z")
[QUOTE=Jragon] Stay away from those teleporters then. As it stands most ideas concerning teleporters involve, essentially, killing you, blowing up your body into basic particles, sending some data (or if it was more like Star Trek, scanning you), and then putting you back together from spare parts on the other side. [/QUOTE] Tell me about it. Call me sentimental, but I intend to stay away from transport/transmogrifiers that don’t operate more like “pour from one container into another.” I guess that’s more like…_Analog_ Science Fiction, in Fact. ( 😉 ) I think I heard an argument tacked on to a teleporter poll on these very boards, once; what if, instead of the original “you” being destroyed simultaniously while you were being teleported, they just waited until the process completed, and shot the original in the head? Or better yet, they waited until the teleport completed, then a trap door opened up in the booth and they grabbed the original to use as a slave laborer, to recoup the cost of teleporting you? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/22 "2008-08-18T20:28:44Z")
Would it have the strength of five gorillas? and could I get big Chainsaw hands? RZZZZZZZZZZZZZ! ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/23 "2008-08-18T20:38:13Z")
I’d do it. It’d be embarrassing when the mechanic saw that one part of my steel exoskeleton was more polished that the rest though. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/24 "2008-08-18T21:15:48Z")
Does my new robot body still get to eat? because I loves me some kitchen time. And since my kitchen time frequently leads to happy bedroom times, does my new robot body … you know … have highly attractive and useful boy parts? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/25 "2008-08-18T21:34:40Z")
Think : “Transformers! More Than Meets The Eye!™” I’d wait until death was immanent, then–TRANSFORM & ROLL OUT! ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/26 "2008-08-18T21:39:53Z")
Yeah, I’d be worried about losing something in the process. I’d rather just replace parts as they fail. Or, can they just find some fluid that could supply oxygen to my fleshy brain to keep it alive. Then install some I/O jacks on my brain stem that would control the robot. ---
**Author:** ![brewha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@brewha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brewha)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/27 "2008-08-18T21:46:21Z")
Maybe something like [THIS](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0886/bigbody.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2008, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349/28 "2008-08-19T16:00:03Z")
[QUOTE=brewha] Maybe something like [THIS](http://www.x-entertainment.com/articles/0886/bigbody.jpg) [/QUOTE] Yes, that’s exactly what I had in mind. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/would-you-download-your-mind-brain-into-a-robot-body/460349.md?page=1)