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coumineol t1_j2hwgwn wrote

That will never happen, sorry. At most thanks to brain imaging you can create a digital avatar similar to yourself in many aspects, but that avatar will not be a direct extension or substitute for your biological body. And as an aside humanity as a whole will also become redundant and driven to extinction very soon.

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Cryptizard t1_j2i2hfa wrote

I used to think this until I thought about, instead of an instant transfer, gradual integration with electronics. First an implant that connects your brain to a computer interface. Then one that gives you extra neural capacity.

Your thoughts and memories move back and forth between biological and digital substrate. Over time you get more and more digital capacity and less biological until one day you are all computer. There would be no point where you go from one to the other. It is the ship of Theseus.

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just-a-dreamer- OP t1_j2hztoq wrote

Maybe we can maximize the utility of a biological body and link it to the digital world.

If machines can be built and instructed to keep the body alive in a coma like condition, combined with advances in genetics and medicine, human bodies could be kept alive for centuries.

I would have little use for my body anyway and rather interact with the material world through data input from machines.

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