11-06-2010, 12:46 PM
This is a question that has plagued my mind for a good long while.
I've tried figuring out what death would be like for a human going by my past knowledge of computer data.
From what I understand thinking about past resources I've forgotten the links and references to, data is something that can be written on or over but is impossible to fully erase (unless you smash the computer, carrying the data, repeatedly with a crowbar XD....but in all srsness).
How I remember data works is that you can technically delete the data but the system holding the data (your computer) will always store (what I personally call but can't remember the correct term) "memories" of that data just in case the data needed to be revived for emergency purposes like for example, finding any clues in the scene of police investigation.
Brainstorming on those particular facts, I would guess humans that are turned into data in the digital world can't really die either.
HOWEVER....how they will be revived is a complete and total mystery.
I don't know. What do you guys think?
I've tried figuring out what death would be like for a human going by my past knowledge of computer data.
From what I understand thinking about past resources I've forgotten the links and references to, data is something that can be written on or over but is impossible to fully erase (unless you smash the computer, carrying the data, repeatedly with a crowbar XD....but in all srsness).
How I remember data works is that you can technically delete the data but the system holding the data (your computer) will always store (what I personally call but can't remember the correct term) "memories" of that data just in case the data needed to be revived for emergency purposes like for example, finding any clues in the scene of police investigation.
Brainstorming on those particular facts, I would guess humans that are turned into data in the digital world can't really die either.
HOWEVER....how they will be revived is a complete and total mystery.
I don't know. What do you guys think?