You can't live forever. That's impossible. Something will kill you sooner or later. Extending your life only increases the odds of it being something other than aging.
If you can figure out how to digitize a consciousness you could live forever in either a computer or clone. Theoretically if you could transfer consciousness into a computer then you should be able to do the reverse. Meaning, clone a body and upload the consciousness.
I used to wonder about Revelation 9:6. Those wanting to die but can't. As this technology becomes potential reality I could see how that becomes prophetic. Trap the sheep in a matrix. It's part of what the meta/Facebook crap is about. Who knows, maybe the nanoparticle jabs, 5g, meta and all are connected to uploading consciousness of those who survive the process.
You bring up some interesting points that I'd like to explore further.
Digitizing a consciousness through some sort of brain scan isn't possible. It's not something that can be done. It's science fiction.
But.. There is a way to digitize a person by emulating their behavior. Imagine a system that tracks everything you see, everything you feel, and everything you sayand do. And then when you die, it feeds the petabytes of data to machine learning to produce a digital version of you. It won't be you, but it will emulate you well enough. It will build you not by scanning the brain but by observing your behavior.
Now comes the metaverse. We know facebook loves collecting data. The more, the better. And in this metaverse you will be wearing a vr headset and it will be tracking--and recording--everything you see, say, and do.
When you say they'll be able to trap sheep in the matrix, that's exactly what they will do--by re-creating the sheep from the data they've collected. They will turn them into bots, the agents smiths of the metaverse. And they'll be allowed to do this because the stupid fucks using the metaverse will have agreed to it by signing their contract of adhesion.
It can be transferred- the elite are 98% thin and muscular. Look at lowler- cooper- bourdain Bezos and the like. Even people like Letterman that used to be fat now aren't. Transferred into better meatsuits. You know how fat normal people that could afford the best meal every meal would get? 60 year old elite woman in string bikinis- fuck off .
Elon Musk has a company that claims they'll have a working brain chip implant this year. Imagine having one since birth that records every electrical impulse your brain has ever made. I suppose you'd have to debate philosophy to answer what makes you, you. What is the soul? Are you just a set of experiences and memories? If you're just a set of neuropathways created from experience you could theoretically create the same neuropathways in a new body. I'd have to look it up again, but I read an article not long ago. There's a company(Microsoft, I believe) that either is working on it has the ability to create believable bots of living people. So you can keep chatting with a dead loved one.
Isn't possible yet.
There's 3 technologies MRI, EEG and something else.
One isn't very fast, MRI I think. EKG isn't very accurate I think., And one more in the middle. Once all three of those can be improved a couple orders of magnitude, and done at the same time, a rough copy might be possible. Improve again, and make a better copy.
If your consciousness was uploaded to a computer would it really be you? You would still be dead and it would simply be something that believed it was you.
Or am I missing something?
An answer to this is a matter of philosophy. What's makes up the soul? Are you merely a conglomeration of experiences and memories or is there something deeper?
"Transfer consciousness" kekkkk. Pure science fiction.
Digitizing consciousness? Can you even call that living? I guess for someone as desperate as Bezos it's good enough.
Pretty sure you are just killing yourself and making a copy at that point.
being healthy is the slowest way to inevitably die
I couldn't have said it better myself.
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