Are these Ghosts or Just my Imagination?

[AppleQueso]

Transferring your brain into a computer wouldn't exactly mean you've transferred YOURSELF into a computer.

[brunoafh]

Also I'd like to mention cell phone cameras wouldn't generally be considered powerful enough to capture ghosts on "film" by anyone who does it "professionally". Most used some pretty serious film (such as infrared) and avoided using even SLR digital cameras at all until they got past 6 Mega Pixels.

Yeah ghosts tend to avoid anything less than 6 megapixels. It's not their style.

[KDub]

hilarious

[Evildeadmanwalking77]

[Hatta]

Transferring your brain into a computer wouldn't exactly mean you've transferred YOURSELF into a computer.

Which part of the body do you think is the substrate for the "self" then?

[AppleQueso]

Transferring your brain into a computer wouldn't exactly mean you've transferred YOURSELF into a computer.

Which part of the body do you think is the substrate for the "self" then?

What do you think I'm trying to say here?

[Inazuma]

If it actually was possible to download someone's brain to a computer and then later successfully upload it to another brain, it should work. The person would wake up with his new brain/body and continue from where he left off. Well, it would basically be a clone of the person, but he wouldn't know that. He would think he was the original. Just like if you backup your PC data, lose the original and then restore from the backup.

The closest we can come to this sort of thing in today's world is a "head transplant". You cut off someone's head (with brain inside), and attach it to the headless body of another human. If you can successfully connect everything, you would have essentially moved the "core person" to another body.

It would be more difficult to do a straight up brain transplant because of how much more complicated it is, but if you could somehow do it, you would get the same end result. We are our brains. You can damage and remove any other part of the body and the core person will remain the same. If the brain itself is harmed, then you start to see the core person affected. If the brain dies, the core person dies.

[AppleQueso]

If it actually was possible to download someone's brain to a computer and then later successfully upload it to another brain, it should work. The person would wake up with his new brain/body and continue from where he left off. Well, it would basically be a clone of the person, but he wouldn't know that. He would think he was the original. Just like if you backup your PC data, lose the original and then restore from the backup.

That's more what I'm getting at, that a downloaded copy of your brain still wouldn't be your consciousness. From your own point of view, you would still be quite mortal.

I may be bad at explaining what I'm trying to say here.

[GSZX1337]

hilarious

It was kind of funny, but not hilarious.

[Hatta]

What do you think I'm trying to say here?

I'm trying to give you the benefit of a doubt, but it looks like you're hinting at dualism here. Not to go too far into it, but that's not an idea that's entertained by any cognitive scientist, neuroscientist, AI researcher, or honestly anyone who thinks a bit about the implications of basic physics (F=ma, conservation of energy, etc). It was a nice idea for Decartes' time, but it belongs in the 17th century, just like geocentrism, or Lamarckism.