Been thinking about this a lot lately and wanted to see what people actually think. Say the technology existed full consciousness transfer in a robotic body, doesn't matter how, just assume it works. Would you do it?
PROS:
- Never getting sick again — no cancer, no infections, no organs slowly giving out on you
- Aging just stops being a thing
- Parts get replaced instead of you being stuck with permanent injuries or damage
- Way better senses — night vision, hearing outside normal range, zoom vision, whatever they build in
- Way stronger, faster, more precise than any human body
- No more sleeping, no more eating just to survive, no more depending on food and water
- Could survive in environments that would kill a human instantly — extreme cold, extreme heat, radiation, deep water, whatever
- No fatigue, no burnout, no random exhaustion for no reason
- No chronic pain
CONS:
- Lose real physical sensation — taste, touch, the actual feel of things
- Emotions might flatten out without the chemical/hormonal side of being human — love, joy, grief might just not hit the same
- No natural endpoint might kill your sense of urgency — nothing feels like it matters if you've got unlimited time
- Physical intimacy, adrenaline, that whole hormonal rush of being alive — does not exist for you anymore
- New risks you never had to think about before — EMPs, corruption, software failure
- Might lose whatever intangible thing makes being human feel meaningful, even if you can't name exactly what that is