I've had days like that, where I've checked back after a reasonable amount of time and nothing changed. It's understandable though. A few of us aren't too much for light conversation, and more than a few of those left are either in school or sleeping, due to time constraints.

I'm probably going to be inactive (or at least, more inactive that usual) until the end of Saturday. More work to catch up on.
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Topic of discussion:

Suppose that you had the ability to "become" another person, as in, your consciousness is integrated with theirs, and during this time, your physical body and every other person's memories involving you disappear, as long as you "are" another person.

You can sense and feel everything that the person whom you chose to become can, and you remain an observer at the beginning. Over time, you gain more and more control over that person, while simultaneously, you begin to think more and more like them as well. Eventually, you will have full control, but also, your original "self" would have been effectively replaced as well.

Imagine now that I tell you that you have this ability, and you've already used it in the past. You are living another person's life. If you were given the following options, which would you choose?

1. Continue living the life that you are living right now, and forget about all of this nonsense.
2. Choose to become another person (limited to people whom you've had contact with, and are at least acquainted with).
3. Regain your original self, which you know nothing about.
4. Give your ability to someone else.
5. Allow the original consciousness of the person that you are inhabiting to make the decision for you.
6. Strangle de4th for asking such a convoluted and meaningless question.

5. Allow the original person's consciousness to make the decision for me.


I would feel like an intrusive monster if I took over someone's consciousness, but it would be unfair to that person's memory if I did not allow them to make the decision. If, in effect, letting their memory decide is the same thing as living as they would, then so be it. I would do everything in my power to erase the idea of me being anything other than who I was and then live like that-- to me it would not be living as a lie, since originally that power would have been a part of who I am. There would be no need to attempt to regain what I lost-- I lost it! That's character progress. You can never have something you've lost back the same way it was before you lost it. Never. It's always going to be different, and the only way forward IS forward.

Not only would I allow that consciousness to make the decision for me, I'd allow it full control over my body because upon finding that out I would feel like a total thief and be too disgusted with myself to want to do anything with it. In a situation like that, where my consciousness overlays another, I would pull myself back to the very wayside rather than interfere further. I care way too much about others to see myself taking an active role in the life I'd subsumed.

I would either become myself again, or give this ability to another person. Despite the fact that I would then know nothing about "me," I would hate knowing that I was once another person and subsequently chose to become whoever I am now.

In regards to giving it to someone else, It would be an interesting social experiment to see who they chose and whether it's someone I would respect or not (Tiger Woods vs. Stephen Hawking). And if I was already another person, I now know everything about this person and would be wary of going back to my original self.

Hey bros! Sorry if I've been gone for a while. I've been really busy lately.

Rip and I have the same birthday?

de4th's question reminds me a bit of the movie "Being John Malkovich", wherein several people managed to gain "control" of the actor John Malkovich.

Can't my consciousness and the other person's consciousness engage in some sort of symbiotic relationship? Problems encountered by a certain consciousness may be resolved faster and better with the help of the other person's consciousness, provided that the problem is mutually exclusive to only one consciousness. Won't that benefit both stakeholders at the end of the day?

Sounds like Need For Speed: Shift...

Cyber gave me all his tc. hes not the guy you think he is. just saying

Well shit thats sweet

The point is that you know nothing of the other consciousness, except that it exists, as per choice number five, and that it is at least similar to how "you" are currently. You do not know if you are currently "yourself", or a combination of the two, and you also have no means of interacting with that other consciousness beyond making that choice.


I am not familiar with it. Care to explain?


Noted.

Which was how much?

and I think we got a pretty good gauge of his character when he stole everything and ran.