DUST Search - Do mercs have a soul?

True Adamance wrote:

KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote:

No one has a soul. Not immortal mercs, not capsuleers, not the pious monks of the Amarr, not the regular people. Consciousness/mind is all there is, and its basically a process generated by the brain through natural means. Once your brain is destroyed, the process of "mind" ceases, but if you can recreate the brain of a person (through cloning and neural shaping) then you can make it start performing the action known as "mind" or "consciousness" again. Identical brains generate identical minds.
If I were to guess how our immortality implants work, I would say it works by transmitting the state/structure of our brain to a new brain after death, and the state/structure of the new brain is molded by the implant to be that of the destroyed one. If the brains are the same, then they will generate the same mind.

The physical parts are not important, it is the actions they perform and the information they store that matter. I suppose one could count the actions and information as a soul, but I would not.

That's a dark and ultimately hopeless way to live, I do pity you greatly.

Ain't nothing I need except stone cold ISK.-Mistaahh Juvenile, neutral mercenary.


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Mistaahh Juvenile Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 13	Posted - 2013.12.09 18:32:00 - [1] - Quote No. I do not have a soul. I' m blindly guided by the smell of ISK, immortal clone or not. Ain't nothing I need except stone cold ISK.-Mistaahh Juvenile, neutral mercenary.
Mistaahh Juvenile Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 13	Posted - 2013.12.09 21:55:00 - [2] - Quote And how do we get reborn? Science. Has nothing to do with a soul, at all. I wish I shared your optimistic vision, Denak. Ain't nothing I need except stone cold ISK.-Mistaahh Juvenile, neutral mercenary.
Mistaahh Juvenile Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 13	Posted - 2013.12.10 14:38:00 - [3] - Quote True Adamance wrote: KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf wrote: No one has a soul. Not immortal mercs, not capsuleers, not the pious monks of the Amarr, not the regular people. Consciousness/mind is all there is, and its basically a process generated by the brain through natural means. Once your brain is destroyed, the process of "mind" ceases, but if you can recreate the brain of a person (through cloning and neural shaping) then you can make it start performing the action known as "mind" or "consciousness" again. Identical brains generate identical minds. If I were to guess how our immortality implants work, I would say it works by transmitting the state/structure of our brain to a new brain after death, and the state/structure of the new brain is molded by the implant to be that of the destroyed one. If the brains are the same, then they will generate the same mind. The physical parts are not important, it is the actions they perform and the information they store that matter. I suppose one could count the actions and information as a soul, but I would not. That's a dark and ultimately hopeless way to live, I do pity you greatly. I do think alike as Kagehoshi. Adamance, but, I do not need pity, I've been raised a killer, and if I had a soul, it has long fractured, and destroyed, leaving only concioussness behind, the knowledge, even if I'm shot up, stabbed, or beaten to a bloody pulp that cannot resemble a humano+»d form, I'll stand up again. Be it in another body. I can bet my mind transfer is easier, since I do not have a soul ;), or a destroyed one. Ain't nothing I need except stone cold ISK.-Mistaahh Juvenile, neutral mercenary.
Mistaahh Juvenile Condotta Rouvenor Gallente Federation 13	Posted - 2013.12.11 11:07:00 - [4] - Quote The so called 'subjective' opinion of an amarr. Interesting, I'll be givikg at a read when I'm not killing something in about an hour.. Ain't nothing I need except stone cold ISK.-Mistaahh Juvenile, neutral mercenary.