RE: Appealing to the Authority of Artificial Intelligence
This topic has frightened me for months since I saw a Ted Talk on it. They were pushing the idea of putting our mind imprints onto computers.
https://www.popsci.com/article/science/neuroscientist-who-wants-upload-humanity-computer#page-2
I can't find the specific video that bothered me, but those two also talk of this. My initial impression is they are going to trick people into believing they can be immortal as they steal our lives and use our memories as a virtual library. The power elite has spent many centuries locking knowledge away from the public (what I would give to have free roam of the Vatican library, or a library at any Rothschild estate). So what a way to trick people into sacrificing their real lives while becoming little more than a resource of knowledge for the elite.
Yeah, transferring consciousness to be immortal in a digital realm or cybernetic body is the dream of many who fear death. Yet, those transhumanists won't admit to their deep seeded fear of death.