How would you feel modern medicine advanced to the point where doctors believed it was too arduous to try and fight diseases and instead would replace people with healthy copies?
The copies would retain their memories and the previous version was quarantined and disposed of.
Edit: BTW your answer will dictate how the AI overloads will judge you.
You have a dislocated shoulder. Prepare to be moved to incineration bay G.
This is a minor plot point in Subnautica 2. Personally, I think that since you'd be reuploading a copy of your psyche, the "you" that currently exists would still die. The copy may retain the memories and seem functionally identical to you. But I still think the "you" that exists in your head would cease to exist after a reupload. For that reason, I don't like the idea.
Well that's not really medicine is it.
Indeed, that would not be medicine anymore but what an amazingly profitable business it would still be: lifetime (and endless) subscriptions to access new/healthy copies of oneself on a regular basis. I can already see our billionaire friends having a hard-on just thinking about the gazillion dollars that will earn them, on top of their already excessively large fortune(s).
Quite literally the plot of Altered Carbon
If any idiot ever tells you that life would be meaningless without death, Hyperion recommends killing them.
You have to know some medicine to make the decision at least.
Why?
Cost/benefit analysis
That's not medicine.
I said... neber mind
Why would patients want this "solution"?
That said a more realistic version would be replacing diseased organs this way.
I feel like this would be a good prompt over in [email protected].
It's hardly original, it's basically the main conceit of Altered Carbon
yeah well [email protected] needs more content.
Fair enough! I can understand that
It's all over the Old Man's War book series too
Personally I don't think the idea of transporting memories makes sense. Memories are a connection our cells in our heads made in response to stimuli. I think you can have an identical clump of cells and they have two similar, but different, memories attached based on the person's experience. Like, my favorite food is double chocolate cake, your favorite food is your mom's meatloaf, our brains' cells look the same but what we are experiencing consciously when those cells interact is completely different. Because the cells are doing the exact same thing, right? It doesn't make sense that every individual thing we experience would have a slightly different cell.
There's a saying: If you are over 50 and nothing is hurting, you're in trouble. I haven't been in trouble since I turned 50, so I'd love a new, healthy body straight out of the cooler.
I'd sign up right now!
I'm not what anyone would call severely disabled, but I've got enough things wrong, that a reset sounds great. If being transferred to a new body just feels like waking up from a nap, I am still me, and you can do whatever you want with that busted old trade in.
EDIT: Actually, would they let me keep it? I started coming up with some great ideas for pranks!
Every once in a while the earlier copy will survive and then there would be multiples of you, shenanigans ensue.
Though now that you mention it, I'm not keen on being able to remember the suffering and dying every single time it happens.
(Mickey 17 was a great movie, you're probably referencing that or a similar story)
Mickey 17 was an overly inflated version of "Moon" with Sam Rockwell.
Easy cave Johnson
I, for one, welcome our AI overloads.
I feel like it's more a case of does euthinasia make sense if a copy of you can take over all of your obligations.
I am biased towards letting my decrepted butt live as long as I can and only option for euthinasia if I really was a burden.
If a "live" consciousness transfer isn't possible, I'd only go for it if I was told I'd fall asleep and wake up in a new body. I wouldn't want to know if this was how it actually worked.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt8880894/
Here you go.
I would feel fear since I would experience death multiple times unless they wipe that part of. This is basically cloning, another thing, is that really me that new version.