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Edit: Wait a second! Fruitless?

Cher.
She might never die.

I am aware that we are already taking verly small steps in this direction. I know of an expeiriment where they took some brain cells from a rat and used that to control a remote body, so theoreticly, it seems possible that we could use the human brain in place. This also matches perfectly with the game when you think about it, as this experiment shows the subject can control a remote body.

Well, it's like taking prosthetic arms and legs (there are already pretty realistic prosthetics) and taking them a little further. De-braining (don't know what to call it) may not be so far off.

Hook up a brain to a machine that disables the nerves and nurtures the brain, then remove the body, and then make a jar that keeps it alive.

I thought the idea was that you transfered your conciousness to another artificial brain? Or do they actually remove the brain from the body?
In the intro you can see a guy with a machine attached to his head and it looks like he is controlling the mechanical arms, with the artificial brain, with his own brain.

No, they extract the brain. What'd you think was in the jars, hmm? Jello?

EDIT: Wait, maybe they did transfer consciousness to an artificial brain like you said. I still think they extracted it, because a brain would be hard to make.

My understand of this is that the brain is hooked up to some mechanical transmitting device which overrides the uh... "empty" brain of another body.

If you've seen the movie Avatar, it's like that except instead of a person climbing into a machine, it's just a brain hooked up directly to a machine.

It's possible to hook up artificial limbs to our nervous system, but they're built unique to the nervous system. There was a man who had a hand which could "feel" (although, the concious didn't feel it in the right place because of perception of where the nerves are). He could control the hand as he would his normal hand.

There are also devices (like that shown in the intro with the man wearing a headset looking at a monitor) being developed already. I think they had a prototype model that was running with Second Life.

I have been thinking about this for a while, and I think for some things, they would need to hookup limbs, eyes, ears, and god knows what else after they transfer the brain, since it would be hard to test while you were still human, unless you like having you flesh opened up. Plugs hooked up to your nervice system could trigger other things befor they hook up the hardware, as a way to test things. for a while they may have to keep your original ears so you could understand their instructions for the tests. Then again, this is in know way based in hard science, because I'm not that dedicated to the subject.

A) You've dug up a very old thread
B) The human mind has already been shown to adapt to new sensors, by the principal or neural nets.
(look up the "tongue camera" - or something like that)

C) I am certain now that removing the brain itself is futile; it would be a far better advance and less wasteful to "simply" move the mind. I posit that it would be possible by gradually adding hardware until the wetware has transferred all new information to it, and may simply be detached.
I do not really want to write an essay on this just now though, I have too many papers for my courses as is.

Yes, but then all we could do is create a society of robots that can only ask "What would my mind's previous owner do...?" and react to each other accordingly. Moving the physical brain = immortality. Moving the data FROM it = one vegetable and one fake sentient robot.

wat.
The mind is the data. I don't suppose you consider yourself fake sentient?

No, your cells will certainly die. Not only is there a limit to duplication, but your brain (and mine, and every human's) is terrifically inefficient at what it does.
Despite that being what's presented in CC, it's nothing like the "best solution."