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This is something I did on another forum, and I thought I'd try it here. This is intended to be a thought experiment. As such, certain premises, which are currently impossible, will be assumed. Please remain within the given premises.
The title is also the title of a show on Netflix. In it, science has developed such that human consciousness can be downloaded into a device that is then implanted into the top of the spine, base of the brain. What this results in is the ability to live beyond the body death, and even to switch bodies. While children are born normally, and eventually receive the device (the show never mentions at what age it happens, but by preschool years), bodies without consciousnesses are also created.
Here is the question. Since the person itself would be mature, Should it be allowed for someone with, say 30+ years of lifetime experience, to inhabit a child body (assume one created, or no longer housing an actual child) and to have sex with an adult body (assume also inhabited by an actual adult)? And as reference, in the show there was a scene where a child who's body had died in an accident was placed into an adult body because that was all that was available. So if that could happen, then an adult could end up in a child body.
The title is also the title of a show on Netflix. In it, science has developed such that human consciousness can be downloaded into a device that is then implanted into the top of the spine, base of the brain. What this results in is the ability to live beyond the body death, and even to switch bodies. While children are born normally, and eventually receive the device (the show never mentions at what age it happens, but by preschool years), bodies without consciousnesses are also created.
Here is the question. Since the person itself would be mature, Should it be allowed for someone with, say 30+ years of lifetime experience, to inhabit a child body (assume one created, or no longer housing an actual child) and to have sex with an adult body (assume also inhabited by an actual adult)? And as reference, in the show there was a scene where a child who's body had died in an accident was placed into an adult body because that was all that was available. So if that could happen, then an adult could end up in a child body.