Yuh huh!

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Fugates

Hard to imagine that humanity will still exist so far in the future.

If so, I doubt that humans will use their physical body as the vessel for their mind anymore. It is just way more efficient to put the mind into a machine that feeds on electricity.

Perhaps with some cyber- or bioengineering physical body may still have some value. But I'm afraid even in this case blue skin color would be the smallest of the differences with our bodies today.

Why would you even bother with bioengineering if you can just upload you mind into a computer? You don't need to have a strong body if you can transport your mind via glas fibre cable anywhere you want with almost the speed of light. Why would you add extensions to your all-purpose body if you could just build a robot specifically designed to do the interaction with the real world that you like to do at this point of time and upload your mind into it?

you can also become blue if you eat too much colloidal silver

Physical body doesn't mean you can't also have your consciousness stored in some decentralised digital way.

If your mind can leave your body, there is no reason to have a single, crude, aging, organic vessel anymore.

It's not a vessel if your mind is stored elsewhere, it's more of a platform, a long-term convenient avatar. Also we don't know if our limited human minds are able to exist without physical platforms at all.

Obviously, the Qu will fuck our shit up.

all people will be GMO in two hundred years, they can be whichever color their creators want

Imagine being free of the slavery to your own body's hormones. Free of all your body's mundane necessities.

This will either be truly divine or there will be almost nothing left of us.

would you move to San Junipero if you could?

I'm afraid I didn't watch Black Mirror. I think I tried to watch one episode but it had such a bad production value that I didn't finish it.

which one was it? every episode is a separate story, so there is a chance you'd enjoy San Junipero (although I might be biased because I love it so much)

Imagine being free of the slavery of life then.

But I agree, it's hard to say how much of us is physical unless we try...

I can't remember. It was at least 4 years ago. I'm sorry.

 

Nowadays my attention span is so fucked up that I don't even watch movies anymore.

I have no doubts that it is possible to simulate a mind in a computer. Why shouldn't it be possible?

The question is what your mind does if you free it from any motivation. Usually life revolves around chasing endorphins. If your computer mind won't get any endorphin equivalent you will just be depressed eternally. If you give the endorphin button to yourself you will most likely just continuously press it like a heroin junkie. If someone else gets control over it he will be able to totally control your mind.

I'm not sure if human mind can take it, with the way it works today. Imagine you found out that all your life, all the reality around you is a simulation and you can't escape it. You would probably go crazy at some moment.

Of course human mind can be lied to but that doesn't seem to be a reliable solution.

We may possibly be in a computer simulation already.

That was actually one of the main underlying plot points of one of the later SAO arcs. The story conclusion was it's more or less "okay" if it goes into the "more real" direction, i.e. if you find yourself trapped in a simulation without escape, you go crazy because it's "not real", but if you suddenly one day find that your life this entire time was a simulation, that's the norm for you, and it would also be okay for you if you exit the simulation into the "real world".

 

If you free yourself from any and all external motivation, you will eventually find some new goal. You'll look at the garden one day and decide to start growing veggies or keeping it free from weeds, or you'll think to write a story or find a new book to read. You do it because you "want to", intrinsic motivation, as opposed to "have to", such as finding a job to pay rent or defend your country at war, external motivation. It happens much more often then you'd think; you get fired and you don't need a source of income for a few years so you reevaluate your life, or you get an inheritance and decide you don't want to continue old job.

Completely zero motivation is still not actually zero because you have basic physiological needs.