Sunday, April 23, 2006

Soul as Software

What if soul is software? If the soul is software, then it can be much more integrated with the rest of the human body. Software includes functions, data, and configurations. The soul would then include skills, memories, and personality. Software is infinitely malleable, and the same would then be said for the soul. Ever new memory would change a soul. Every new skill would add dimensions to the soul. Harmful happenings could cause the personality to change. If the soul is software, then immortality could be implemented by a perfect backup system. Every skill, memory, and personality quirk would have to be backed up for the soul to be recreated at resurrection. Immortality would then be a sort of data integrity guarantee. Perhaps then the transfer of a soul to heaven is simply an awakening of the backup copy, as the primary copy disintegrates into electrical noise. In this case, heaven could be a sort of cold storage of the tape backups, or a reunion of the saints, in some sort of temporary memory, or a time for reflection on the life that has been stored. Resurrection would be a download to new hardware, and a chance to add new experiences to the ones already stored. Comments?

1 Comments:

Anonymous Aarthy said...

Nice simile. Software has purpose though, something beyond being in cold-storage or infinitely learning new experiences and modifying itself?

8:56 PM, February 08, 2012  

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