In the absence of anything interesting to say (it's spring break, and my mind has gone very soft), i'll leave you with 10 questions that you should consider so that you don't get caught off guard if you should one day have to answer them. In order of seriousness:
1) If you were given the option to be cryonically frozen after your death, but before the point of information-theoretic death (with the understanding that you'd be resuscitated once medicine could revive you), would you take it?
2) What about being a brain-in-a-jar (like in Roald Dahl's William and Mary?)
3) Uploaded onto a computer?
4) Memory enhancers that allow you to recover memories you thought were lost. Kosher?
5) If offered to you, would you take Ritalin?
6) Modafinil?
7) Undergo gene therapy to enhance your cognition?
8) Would you rather be paralyzed from the waist down, or lose all your autobiographical memories?
9) Would you agree to learn how to dissociate so as to create an alternate personality that was more assertive/congenial/diplomatic/aggressive/whatever character trait you're lacking in, with the understanding that you could switch back and forth between personalities at will (without any between-persona amnesia)?
10) If you were told, and believed, that we were indeed in The Matrix, would you take the red pill?
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