Would you choose to upload your memories to gain immortality?

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Does the concept of digital replication such as brain uploading or digital simulation answer the following questions:

Can truly capture the essence of human consciousness or self awareness?

Would a digitally replicated self be the same as the original, or would it be a distinct entity?

Can digital replication overcome the limitations and constraints of the physical brain and body?

You're asking whether a person's self-awareness can be preserved or replicated after death through digital means.

The craziness here is that we're finding more and more that our technological systems are mirroring some of the most advanced natural systems in nature.

You know, the internet is wired like the neurons in our brain, which are wired like computer models of dark matter in the universe. They all share the same intertwingled elemental structure.

It means that what it is to be human is to transform and transcend; we've always done it.

We're not the same species we were 100,000 years ago. We're not going to be the same species tomorrow.

We're talking about a thousand trillion neurons. It's a system of such complexity that it bankrupts our language but, fundamentally, it's only three pounds and we've got it cornered and it's right there and it's a physical system.

The computational hypothesis of brain function suggests that the physical wetware isn't the stuff that matters.

Mind uploading, storing cells on silicon, even teetering on the edge of so-called immortality changes everything about what it means to be human at a really fundamental level.

The confidence with which we think we can upload ourselves to silicon or re-create ourselves with algorithms is astonishing to me.

If you talk to actual brain researchers and neuroscientists, they say, ""We're nowhere close.""

We don't, we don't know what the source of consciousness is. We don't know where we come from. We don't even know if there's meaning to this universe or not, yet we think that we can make a simulation that's as valid as this?

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