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Lastly, they would undergo a day course of laser and median nerve stimulation while monitoring the patient with MRI scans. Consent is likely to be an issue for the researchers as technically all of the patients will be brain dead.
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These simulations will also change how we relate to the living. But at any moment in the future you would still be able to spend time laughing and reminiscing with a simulation so similar to your friend that it would be difficult to tell the two apart. At the same time, a world where you can interact freely with idealised simulations of other people could have a deleterious effect on real-world relationships.
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Why interact with your petulant uncle in real life when you can interact with an idealised, and much more fun, version of him in the digital world? After all, bots can be muted and their bothersome traits simply deleted. Why bother with the living if the dead can provide comfort and personality tailored to our whims?
New and unexpected patterns of behaviour might also emerge. Perhaps simulations will allow people to hold grudges even after a person has died, continuing to combat a bot that is only ever a click away. The only difference is that it will not be a person that they are interacting with but rather a simulacra. The road will be fraught with moral dilemmas and questions about the human condition.
Soon, the line that divides the living from the dead might not be so clear. This article was originally published at Aeon and has been republished under Creative Commons. Get futuristic videos and news delivered straight to your inbox Daily Weekly.
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