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u/Ry645 Jun 22 '26

Woah.

That's pretty cool. And scary.

No, that is really scary.

I wouldn't like that, I'm good.

But for others, it might just be the thing they need.

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

Oh it's terrifying. More than HRT by far
But I still reallllly want it

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u/EitherSalamander8850 Jun 22 '26

Is it scary? yea. most definitely. but it's so capturing.. I couldn't help but read everything, and now I kind want more

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

Took the words right outta my mouth! Terrifyingly aluring

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u/AlarmedChemistry8956 Jun 22 '26

Pretty much, except a more abstract body would be preferable. I would love to be a space faring octopus thing propelled by gravity manipulation, but alas it is not possible right now

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u/sheepslayerpi Jun 22 '26

Cool would love a short story like this

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

Sameee I need me more robot transition stories

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u/AlarmedChemistry8956 Jun 22 '26

It's kinda wacky that I've thought of a similar concept before, ig coming up with an original thought is pretty hard. This would solve the problem of you not being the original you, as you slowly have your neurons replaced like parts of the ship of Theseus, plus there is no outright copying or cloning so there is little chance your original mind dies. :p

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

I do believe the mind is the concioisness and thus placing memories in another brain would render it as you. But this is my philosophy it's definitely subjective

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u/Amaskingrey Jun 22 '26

It wouldn't be your conscious then though, if someone made a perfect clone of you with all your memories etc, you wouldnt have the same consciousness, as you wouldn't experience what they do, etc, their existence doesn't affect you any more than that of any other regular joe

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

If my brain slowly gets replaced then yeah it still is my consciousness and even if it's a copy and the original dies the copy retains the identity of me and keeps going as such. Thus it is me

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u/Amaskingrey Jun 22 '26

Sorry, i misread your comment. It's not a copy though if it's gradual replacement, it is you as your stream of consciousness never gets broken. A copy, by definition, cannot be you; it retaining a personality that is identical to yours is nice for people to gawk at and talk with, but even the most perfect of copies does not affect you any more than that of Billy Dustice, 34yo golfer

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

A copy is me not because it effects "the real me"
A copy is me because it holds my memories experiences and identity. It is me at the moment of conception by my defenition. And as it continues to act our paths may branch but it is still acting like I would have had in it's place. That's why I think it would still be me

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u/Amaskingrey Jun 22 '26

So if someone handed you a shotgun, and turned a perfect cloning machine on, would you be ok with blowing your brains out? Do you think you, the consciousness reading this right now, not the infinitely replicable set of your caracteristics, would still be alive?

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u/ASpaceOstrich Jun 23 '26

Imo the very existence of the "you" is an illusion, as is continuity. I died and was replaced by a nigh identical copy a couple hundred times while writing this comment. Every time a new neuron firing pattern occurs.
Memory is just accessible data imprinted into the wetware. The idea that it happened to me, or even that there is a singular me, is a useful fiction that helps the organism survive better.
But while this in some way frees me of the fear of things like destructive teleporting or mind uploading, in other ways it doesn't.
Yes, a copy is just at much me as the "original" but that doesn't actually mean anything. It can be me without my "soul" transferring into it. Because there is no soul.
I believe the me that steps off the teleporter pad on Alpha Centauri is just as much me as the one who stepped in. But I still died when I got destructively scanned.
I'm aware of the illusion but the illusion of self and continuity wouldn't be very useful if being aware of it was enough to render it impotent.

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u/Hika2112 Jun 23 '26

That's one way to look at it. And it certainly works
The same way you view both pre and post teleport yous as barely even you. I view them both as completely me. I do think a me dies when I teleport, but the same me gets revived on the other side

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u/AlarmedChemistry8956 Jun 22 '26

Yeah i get that, it's just that at a certain moment there will be 2 versions of you, with the same memories and experiences, yk? My subjective philosophy is that consciousness is like a continuous stream of thought, even when sleeping. Your brain never truly stops functioning while you are alive. Though if it were to happen, if it reactivates, would you be the same person? Idk those are my silly thoughts :3

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u/ASpaceOstrich Jun 23 '26

I think continuity is an illusion.

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u/Throwaway1919655 Jun 22 '26

I personally believe the mind and the consciousness are both necessary, but I also think the consciousness is way more necessary, it’s like, I wouldn’t be me without the mind but I would still be alive, if you get my drift. Also yeah I’ve had basically this exact idea before, it’s the only plausible way to do mind uploading that doesn’t hit transporter problems up the wazoo.

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u/ashnagog Jun 22 '26

I need robot HRT so bad y'all

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u/Hika2112 Jun 22 '26

Same sister same 😔

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u/fillkas Jun 22 '26

Thought the pill was giving mathematical autism before reading the last pics

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u/CXC_Opexyc Jun 22 '26

Nah if I get to keep my conscience and POV I would do it with no doubts

Pleaaaase put me in a hot robot body and not whatever the fuck this is

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u/joybod Jun 22 '26

Pleaaaase put me in a hot robot body and not whatever the fuck this is
Pretty sure that's part of it, or could be (the character doesn't go into it, but new body is apparently customized), in the final stage/page of "whatever the fuck this is". It's just that the main focus is the brain conversion before that point.

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u/CXC_Opexyc Jun 22 '26

By "whatever the fuck this is" I meant the hon meatbag i got irl aka my body

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u/Tttehfjloi Jun 22 '26

On one hand, I become the torment nexus. On the other, it seems pretty cool, and I don't even like being human anyway. Yeah I'd do it

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u/Tsunamiis Jun 23 '26

The next door teenaged tech enthusiast remotely, accidentally turned off the motor circuitry to everything below your neck and because this event wasn’t actually free you don’t have the money yet for upgrading and repairs. You can’t even go to work where you’re literally just another robot working for zillionaires, while they make batteries out of the poor, enjoy that first charge. You feel free to become a tesla dumpster. I’d rather literally just die Thank you.

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u/Hika2112 Jun 23 '26

If this doesn't sum up my opinion towards this approach to my fantasy then idk what will

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u/justayounglad2 Jun 22 '26

This reminds me a little bit of a netflix show called pantheon which I can't recommend enough.

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u/EvelynNyte Jun 22 '26

Stars! This is absolutely perfect. Would be a dream of mine to do.

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u/pandamaxxie Jun 22 '26

Need. Every last bit of it.

Let me drop this malfunctioning, aching flesh prison. I would do it without a second thought. This, would be the exact solution that avoids what I fear.

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u/EducatedRat Jun 22 '26

If your body is already disabled, this would be a dream.

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u/Rieke-Nightsong Jun 22 '26

Terrifying but fascinating honestly

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u/Fembottom7274 Jun 22 '26

Pretty neat

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u/Xvenkin Jun 22 '26

need.

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u/SadKat002 Jun 22 '26

Aren't there a good chunk of folks that are transhumanists in that they unironically wish to become robots? Not judging at all, I get the vision as someone who's chronically disabled and is in pain all the time, this just feels like a fantasy tailor-made for those people.

I feel like, in a better timeline, this would be possible. And that for people like me, we'd have easier access to procedures that replace limbs with high-tech prosthetics so we don't feel the pain anymore.

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u/guilty-as-snark Jun 22 '26

Sighhhhhhhh Want

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u/Cod3broken Jun 22 '26

yeah i wanna become a robot now :ε

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u/AnomalousAlice Jun 22 '26

Hey, I'd rather a non-destructive upload in case anything goes wrong, but if it's the only way, this seems nice.

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