I think it could be possible, but it won't result in true immortality. Everything dies eventually.
The hard problem of consciousness is still a problem though: we don't know how consciousness exists, but ironically it's the only "thing" we can now for sure exists, because we need "it" to ascertain the existence of anything.
Therefore, personally, I think consciousness is primary. I think reality itself started like an epic, untrained, chaotic neural network (I mean NN as a concept, not as physical neurons). Like a chaotic dream ("Vishnu's dream"). Consciousness by its nature seeks order and structure (kind of like the opposite force of entropy), because order brings comfort, happiness, and avoids pain. This is the mechanism that is like the "activation function" for training the NN.
This leads to increasing, fractal complexity. Ever more stable "consciousness structures" are recursively generated to train parts of the whole. Like dreams within dreams, and eventually, subrealities / simulations like this one, in which we have the experience of physical matter that seems very solid and unchanging (but isn't really, if we look at it closely).
So the physical body is like an avatar of a very tiny part of that larger consciousness system. If you change or destroy it, perhaps the mind content (thoughts, memories, personality, ... everything that makes you "you") will be gone (or absorbed in some archive, who knows), but the stream of consciousness will still be there. It will just change form.
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Reply to When does an individual's death occur if the biological brain is gradually replaced by synthetic neurons? by NefariousNaz
I think it could be possible, but it won't result in true immortality. Everything dies eventually.
The hard problem of consciousness is still a problem though: we don't know how consciousness exists, but ironically it's the only "thing" we can now for sure exists, because we need "it" to ascertain the existence of anything.
Therefore, personally, I think consciousness is primary. I think reality itself started like an epic, untrained, chaotic neural network (I mean NN as a concept, not as physical neurons). Like a chaotic dream ("Vishnu's dream"). Consciousness by its nature seeks order and structure (kind of like the opposite force of entropy), because order brings comfort, happiness, and avoids pain. This is the mechanism that is like the "activation function" for training the NN.
This leads to increasing, fractal complexity. Ever more stable "consciousness structures" are recursively generated to train parts of the whole. Like dreams within dreams, and eventually, subrealities / simulations like this one, in which we have the experience of physical matter that seems very solid and unchanging (but isn't really, if we look at it closely).
So the physical body is like an avatar of a very tiny part of that larger consciousness system. If you change or destroy it, perhaps the mind content (thoughts, memories, personality, ... everything that makes you "you") will be gone (or absorbed in some archive, who knows), but the stream of consciousness will still be there. It will just change form.