Memetic And Sociological Immortality
Mantrid
Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
Lockpick Join Date: 2003-12-07 Member: 24109Members
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I've been toying with a concept recently. When people are in a social community, they begin to pick up traits from one another, such as certain ways of speaking, special phrases, gestures, et cetera. This has also been seen between two people who are close friends. Now, would it not be possible for this imprinting to be taken to an extreme? After quite a bit of exposure, and the willingness of the person being exposed, couldn't a person's psyche be copied over to another more or less intact? And, as such, couldn't enough memories be shared to further shape the exposee's mind? Wouldn't this, to some degree, grant the first person a sort of immortality?
If the first person were to lay plans, share this plans with another person, and then imprint that person with their personality, wouldn't their plans continue to prosper even after something as drastic as their death? And could not this second person go on to imprint a third? As such, the personality of the first person would no longer be their distinct psyche, but a culmination of other people's touching upon a foundation of the first's, becoming not a distinct personality, but a personalized meme carried on for centuries, even?
Discuss.
If the first person were to lay plans, share this plans with another person, and then imprint that person with their personality, wouldn't their plans continue to prosper even after something as drastic as their death? And could not this second person go on to imprint a third? As such, the personality of the first person would no longer be their distinct psyche, but a culmination of other people's touching upon a foundation of the first's, becoming not a distinct personality, but a personalized meme carried on for centuries, even?
Discuss.
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I think if you took all of someones thoughts and feelings and transferred them to a clone then that person would be you. They would immediately stop being you as soon as they opened their eyes and experienced something you didn't but only slightly.
Ok, thats immortality out of the way.
Is it possible for an idea to travel down the generations like that? Yes I'd say so although expect some major changes along the way. Just look at the religions (again, sigh, yawn).
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The difference between you developing as a "me" and a clone developing as a person is that the clone would develop in a different direction, therefore he/she would stop being you as soon as he experienced anything you didn't.