Would you trade your entire life to become a brain in a jar?

Would you trade your entire life to become a brain in a jar?

You would be immortal until you chose to die.
You are hooked up to the internet. You can forever browse or play games directly with brain-internet connection.

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this is transhumanism ultimate goal

no I wouldnt

Would I still be able to get high?

>not adeptus Mecanicus

WTF you doing Op fag?

No dipshit, your a brain in a jar.

Yeah you could, faggotron.

Everyday of the week and twice on sunday

Can't fuck. Hmm....

I would if I was plugged into some type of virtual world simulator.

Like I would be able to lucid dream 24/7

Eventually, I would get bored after having all my wants catered to me.

I would then start to create experiences where I have less and less control.

Perhaps maybe one day I would slip deeper and deeper until I am where I am now.

but you can run simulations of fucking that are more real than real

Would it be possible to put my brain in a jarin a death machine or Android that I could control??

If so then yes.

What about porn

of course.
Being a brain in a jar means we would easily have the knowledge to figure out how to manipulate the electrical impulses in your neurons to simulate exactly what substance you would prefer.

including, but not limited to:

any drug, at any strength, for any period of time

any torture inflicted on you, for any period of time

entire pre-defined life(or reincarnative life cycluses) simulations, choosing from a colossal library, ranging from famous people to personalised stories(naturally, including a vast selection of every pornstar, every sex symbol, and maybe even illegaly captured footage/scanned data from just the neighboorhod gal working in Starbucks two Blocks away from some neckbeard 4channer)

the most mind-blowing orgasm ever had in the history of the Universe, continously forever.
I am really happy for the people who get to experience this

Yo Im too high for this, please continue, I feeling like I'm being woke

>more real than real

I doubt it. Insufficient fidelity through the spinal cord.

a better question would be would you receive a technological implant in ur brain which unlocks to the conscious mind the other 90% of the brain which is unconscious, giving you untold amounts of power.

sure.
Gonna put my time into researching bionics to enhance my capabilities / outsource my brain-functions onto actual hardware / eventually completely transition into a synthetic brain.
Then I use my processing-power to manipulate the stock-market, get myself even better hardware deep down in a ABC-proof bunker, and develop the tech necessary to produce synth-bodies, both as servants, and a advanced model for myself.

Gonna live the dream as beautiful immortal, with obedient minions, infinite wisdom, and so much funds in my hand that I can guide humanity in a glorious crusade to the stars.

I will be a god, and the galaxy my playground.

Plug me in, turn warm afternoon beach environment, cannabis, after workout relaxation, a nice dinner-fullness and orgasm dials to max


Wake me up in a year, my dudes

I don't know man i mean it would be quite hard when you got no internet but maybe

>still believing the myth we only use 10% of our brain
at this point I think schools are actively making people stupid on purpose

dreadnought from warhammer 40000

Imagine people being able to control the simulated world you are living in. All it takes is one somewhat evil bastard to change your simulation to literal hell where you are tortured forever and you can't turn it off no matter how much you squirm, shake, or scream.

fuck dreadnaughts.
hook me up to the machine-spirit of an imperial knight, or - even better - an emperor-class titan.

Hey, can't be much different from real life anyway amiright?

How do you know you aren't one already?

because assuming we aren't is a hypothesis relying on much less assumptions.
In doubt, go easy.

yes

you came pretty late to this realization...

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Imagine computer viruses that do this based on your own deepest fears, under worst imaginable circumstances.

Reading about Harry Harlow's pit of despair-experiments made me think this could be used as a way of extortion or punishment by the government, which is exctremely terrifying

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Sounds pretty effective.
The police should do this too in case of drug-dealers.

I prefer to think about the fantastic possibilities for experiencing historical experiences and lives of men like Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Neil Armstrong and John Lennon.
Only with less dying, suffering and despair, and with infinetely more pussy, money and eternal life if you like your new life

Will this mean future psychologists will understand and therefore know how to deal with and prevent psychological problems too?

Fuck me i am high

get

we dont only use 10% of our brain..but only about 10% is actually conscious, the rest is unconscious. if you could connect the conscious and unconscious, you would essentially be superhuman

FUCK

fuck

kek good job you got dubs

DEAR FUTURE HISTORIAN

>include me in the documentary

naw, you would be super fucked-up.
the 10% generating our conscience are not meant to process the raw data being filtered out and handled "passively" by our subconscious.
People who have less solid bridged between these brain regions suffer from over-stimulation, hallucinations, cramps, incapacitating headaches, can't filter light / sound anymore and are not able to properly navigate between memory and present reality, causing them to suffer the extreme opposite effects of altzheimers: hyper-awareness of past events.

in the worst cases, motoric functions are impaired by this too, posing incredible risks for heart-attacks and sleep-suffocation, along other organ- and muscle-related complications.

Translated for you who cant read Persian part 1
We, by the power of the Eternal God, the Oceanic Khan of the great Mongol Ulus—our command.
If this reaches peoples who have made their submission, let them respect and stand in awe of it.
This is a directive in the [Muslim] tongue sent to the great Pope; may he may take note and comprehend it, what has been written. The petition of the assembly convened in the lands of the Emperor [seeking our support], has been heard from your emissaries.
If bearer of this petition reaches you with his own report, you, who are the great Pope, together with all the Princes, must come in person to serve us. At that time, I shall make known all the commands of the Yasa.
Further, you have also said that there would be an advantage for me in accepting baptism. You have imparted this to me, and sent a request to this effect. This your appeal, I have not understood.
Furthermore, you have sent the following message: “You have conquered all the lands of the Hungarians and other Christians. This seems strange to me. Tell me what was their crime” I have also not understood this message of yours. Chinggis Khan and the Great Khan Ögedey have both transmitted the order of the Eternal God that the all the world should be subordinated to the Mongols to be taken note of. But they disregarded God’s order to such an extent that those mentioned by you even held a great council, and they behaved arrogantly in refusing, and they killed our messengers and envoys. Thus the Eternal God Himself has killed and exterminated the people in those countries. How could anybody, without God’s order, merely from his own strength, kill and plunder? And when you go on to say, “I am a Christian, I honor God.” How do you think you know whom God will absolve and in whose favor He will exercise His mercy? How do you think you know that you dare to express such an opinion?

Translated for you who cant read Persion part 2
Through the power of God, all empires from the rising of the sun to its setting have been given to us and we own them. How could anyone achieve anything except by God’s order? Now, however, you must say with a sincere heart: “We shall be obedient, we, too, make our strength available. You personally, at the head of the Kings, you shall come, one and all, to pay homage to me and to serve me. Then we shall take note of your submission. If, however, you do not accept God’s order and act against our command, we shall know that you are our enemies.
This is what we make known to you. If you act against it, how then can we know what will happen? Only God knows.

Written at the end of Jumada II 644 of the Hijra/November 1246.

It's a reply to this letter:

PART 1

God the Father, of His graciousness regarding with unutterable loving-kindness the unhappy lot of the human race, brought low by the guilt of the first man, and desiring of His exceeding great charity mercifully to restore him whom the devil’s envy overthrew by a crafty suggestion, sent from the lofty throne of heaven down to the lowly region of the world His only-begotten Son, consubstantial with Himself, who was conceived by the operation of the Holy Ghost in the womb of a fore-chosen virgin and there clothed in the garb of human flesh, and afterwards proceeding thence by the closed door of His mother’s virginity, He showed Himself in a form visible to all men. For human nature, being endowed with reason, was meet to be nourished on eternal truth as its choicest food, but, held in mortal chains as a punishment for sin, its powers were thus far reduced that it had to strive to understand the invisible things of reason’s food by means of inferences drawn from visible things.
The Creator of that creature became visible, clothed in our flesh, not without change in His nature, in order that, having become visible. He might call back to Himself, the Invisible, those pursuing after visible things, moulding men by His salutary instructions and pointing out to them by means of His teaching the way of perfection: following the pattern of His holy way of life and His words of evangelical instruction, He deigned to suffer death by the torture of the cruel cross, that, by a penal end to His present life, He might make an end of the penalty of eternal death, which the succeeding generations had incurred by the transgression of their first parent, and that man might drink of the sweetness of the life of eternity from the bitter chalice of His death in time.

PART 2

For it behooved the Mediator between us and God to possess both transient mortality and everlasting beatitude, in order that by means of the transient He might be like those doomed to die and might transfer us from among the dead to that which lasts forever.
He therefore offered Himself as a victim for the redemption of mankind and, overthrowing the enemy of its salvation, He snatched it from the shame of servitude to the glory of liberty, and unbarred for it the gate of the heavenly fatherland. Then, rising from the dead and ascending into heaven, He left His vicar on earth, and to him, after he had borne witness to the constancy of his love by the proof of a threefold profession, He committed the care of souls, that he should with watchfulness pay heed to and with heed watch over their salvation, for which He had humbled His high dignity; and He handed to him the keys of the kingdom of heaven by which he and, through him, his successors, were to possess the power of opening and of closing the gate of that kingdom to all. Wherefore we, though unworthy, having become, by the Lord’s disposition, the successor of this vicar, do turn our keen attention, before all else incumbent on us in virtue of our office, to your salvation and that of other men, and on this matter especially do we fix our mind, sedulously keeping watch over it with diligent zeal and zealous diligence, so that we may be able, with the help of God’s grace, to lead those in error into the way of truth and gain all men for Him.

so one religious nutjob measuring the size of his e-peen to another religious nutjob...

Why exactly is this letter not being used as toilet-paper again?

PART 3

But since we are unable to be present in person in different places at one and the same time for the nature of our human condition does not allow this in order that we may not appear to neglect in any way those absent from us we send to them in our stead prudent and discreet men by whose ministry we carry out the obligation of our apostolic mission to them. It is for this reason that we have thought fit to send to you our beloved son Friar Laurence of Portugal and his companions of the Order of Friars Minor, the bearers of this letter, men remarkable for their religious spirit, comely in their virtue and gifted with a knowledge of Holy Scripture, so that following their salutary instructions you may acknowledge Jesus Christ the very Son of God and worship His glorious name by practicing the Christian religion.

PART 4

We therefore admonish you all, beg and earnestly entreat you to receive these Friars kindly and to treat them in considerate fashion out of reverence for God and for us, indeed as if receiving us in their persons, and to employ unfeigned honesty towards them in respect of those matters of which they will speak to you on our behalf; we also ask that, having treated with them concerning the aforesaid matters to your profit, you will furnish them with a safe-conduct and other necessities on both their outward and return journey, so that they can safely make their way back to our presence when they wish. We have thought fit to send to you the above-mentioned Friars, whom we specially chose out from among others as being men proved by years of regular observance and well versed in Holy Scripture, for we believed they would be of greater help to you, seeing that they follow the humility of our Savior: if we had thought that ecclesiastical prelates or other powerful men would be more profitable and more acceptable to you we would have sent them.

Pope Innocent IV
Lyons, 5th March 1245

Has it not crossed your mind that your vat brain would be able to wage eternal crusades against the hordes of Asia, for all eternity, in sparkling clear GIGAHD

No way. The brain just keeps the body running. Your personality and soul is made up from your gut bacteria.

Oh shit, I could become MechaHitler.
Sign me up.

wat

>Your personality and soul is made up from your gut bacteria.
topkek

So what you're saying... Is that autism means your subconscious and conscious minds are better connected than one without, on average.
Neat.

theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacteria-on-the-brain/395918/

>Wake up
>Be Innocent IV
>read letter scroll from barbarian
>feast on roast meat, wine and weed for breakfast
>visit the bathhouse and the redhead brothel
>go to Peter's square
>demand the biggest crusade ever
>take the blondes and the chestnut brunettes with you, leave auburn, platinum and dark at home to be sent to your caravan on rotation every month
>Pack your colossal tent
>Have your servants bring the best bed(the one covered in gold leaf and encrusted with rubies)
>wage eternal crusade against mongol beasts


DEUS VULT

sign me up my dude

only retards think that we have a firm understanding of the brain and the mind. very foolish to think that all sciences are fully developed today. For one, psychology is a new science, and while we have known about the brain for a long time, significant progress in actually understanding it has only just began in the past 100 years. The brain still remains, along with the outer universe, the most unexplored part of science.

Yes.

The minute possibility of this becoming reality within 60 years is keeping me from ending it more than anything

and what does this has to do with the rest of the thread...
again, wat?

he is trying to tell you that you would be able to experience this.

yes, I am aware that gut bacteria release neuro-transmitters that can alter our mood.
now compare this sentence to yours:
>>Your personality and soul is made up from your gut bacteria.

you are either a full blown retard or a troll.
But since you actually tried to find a source for your bullshit, I go with the former.

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that has to be the most complicated way of telling me this, I've ever seen.

What makes you think you will be happy in a vat?

Fake and gay. U use 90 of your brain on reg. Dumb ass. Scarlett johanson loving retard.

>brain gets hacked into running a hellish nightmare simulation untill the death of the universe

have you been reading the thread?
You would be able to stimulate your neurons to feeling whatever feeling or experience.
Including happiness

youtube.com/watch?v=z5dVEnRI6eA

for what purpose?

What's the point? How is feeling artificial feelings for such an extended period a meaningful experience?

not being able to imagine why

have you not spent much time on the internet, my good sir?

how is it not? shit, we might already be in a simulation, would that make your experiences up to this point meaningless?

How can you be so sure you are going to be able to percieve this as artificial?

Do you think that your perception is built out of something different than the neurons in your brain?

kek

When this is actually possible we will have enough tech to make our bodies live forever anyway.
So yes, but also no.

>Would you trade your entire life to become a brain in a jar?
>You would be immortal until you chose to die.
>You are hooked up to the internet. You can forever browse or play games directly with brain-internet connection.

64k modem

half of the People are too retarded to understand this, and the other half is smoking too much weed

Well the overall theme of this thread has been "You are aware, you could do anything want". I'm not denying that we're all just deterministic machines already. I'm just questioning the value of living 'forever' doing whatever.

my a brain in a jar?

No, my brain. Pay attention

Maybe the life i am experiencing right now is a simulation, and i have previously decided to live this life with exactly normal life settings, and not to understand that i am actually an immortal brain in a vat.

Maybe it's because I'm about to get insanely rich, successful or experience the thrill of standing on the walls of Constantinople with my brethren, celebrating after retaking the Holy Land and Byzantium in a glorious last crusade of the West to civilize and subdue the entire world.

Or maybe my brain is nostalgic

I hope you have good looks or a lot of money, friend

>And so passes a Great Thread into the void,
like millions before it.

>May the clever minds of the future know,
that mortal men glimpsed into the far future in this tread

>From the unfathomable Depths of the past we look into your eyes, and say to you: no longer will you be able to quote that ancient Roman tombstone inscription:

>"what you are, I was. And what I am, you will be".

>I toast to you tonight, strangers, listening to the rain on my window and the hum of my computer

>may you live well and look upon the people of my time with kind eyes.

Oslo, 2017

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Yes

Well, damn. That's both heart warming in a sense of its poetry, and sad in the sense of who its made by and who its addressed to.

>include me in the screencap, but not the future documentary

Are there other irl brains inside the simulation? If no, then death.

I would be cast spells and scrying

already been stated you have internet access in the jar, so should be no problem having other jars to talk to if you want.