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[R. Fresco]

My friends and I were talking about uploading your human conscious to a machine or robot so you can exist after a bodily death. And of course, I've never hid my opinion that such a transfer would be moot since most procedures would essentially just be copying your consciousness (Unless it had the original organic brain somehow, but that's getting into the sci-fi area), and if I were to do so, it would only be a representation of my that was uploaded/walking around out there, and that from my personal point of view, I would still be dead. So I wouldn't see the point of doing such a thing since it wouldn't really extend my life from my POV.

But, I had an idea while talking the other day. Basically, if I cam back as a ghost, it would be awkward because you'd have ghost-me and robot-me in existence, essentially two of me (minus the divergent path where robot-me was uploaded and ghost-me died). But, if ghost-me needed to possess an avatar in order to communicate or just live in the real-world, robot-me would be the prefect candidate. (If ghosts could possess robots or the hardware or whatever.) People would assume I'm me anyways because it's robot me, and the consciouses match up so well because same-person.

I guess there would be the dilemma of whether or not robot-me would want to be it's own independent me separate from ghost-me, or if the possession could seamlessly integrate the two consciouses together well to be one person, or if robot-me, just being a program, could just be overridden or put to sleep or whatever.

But yeah, I might change my mind on not uploading myself to a robot or whatever because if I become a ghost, I'd need a real-world avatar to possess to make things easier. Then-again, I'd be putting robot-me through philosophical grief about human-me no longer being alive, and him being just a copy, and believing while an organic afterlife may be possible against all odds, there's almost no chance for a robot one. It would be rough for him.

I feel like I'd have this kind of thing figured out if I had more life experience. Maybe I need to travel more.