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Consciousness vs Cyberimmortality - What's the difference?

consciousness | cyberimmortality |

As nouns the difference between consciousness and cyberimmortality

is that consciousness is the state of being conscious or aware; awareness while cyberimmortality is a hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc are transferred into a computer system.

consciousness

English

Noun

(wikipedia consciousness)
  • The state of being conscious or aware; awareness.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= The machine of a new soul , passage=Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness .}}

    Derived terms

    * cyberconsciousness * hyperconsciousness * teleconsciousness * raise someone's consciousness

    Related terms

    * conscious * conscience

    See also

    * being-for-itself

    cyberimmortality

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A hypothetical form of immortality in which a person's consciousness, memories, etc. are transferred into a computer system.
  • * 1999 , Susan Hawthorne, Renate Klein, Cyberfeminism: connectivity, critique and creativity (page 207)
    • ...it is quite likely that it will be a white male 'cyberelite' who will invest in cyberimmortality for themselves. Yet at the same time they will need women as real and virtual sex objects as well as menial workers/emotional supporters for their travails/travels in cyberspace.
  • * 2011 , Gregory R Hansell, William Grassie, H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics (page 42)
    • It is this embodiment that transhumanism seeks to transcend in its most radical program of cyberimmortality .