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I think humanity will achieve digital immortality and might achieve a form of physical immortality by uploading themselves into artificial bodies.
And I'll 100% sign up for it if it becomes possible.
The digital immortality you want: living forever in a virtual paradise.
The digital immortality you get: you are recorded doing something stupid that ends any career or relationship potential and is never able to be removed from the internet.
In another aspect, what does uploading ones self look like and when is the upload taken? Do they kill the original body after taking the upload or is there a you living out their days stuck in the mortal husk while another you (possibly not the one you are) is off living it up in an immortal body or virtual paradise?
I imagine it to be not unlike a system snapshot of a computer, just of your brain and the data your mind contains, thus making every experience accessible like a computer file in additional to all of the recorded data that exists online.
As for a mortal body, if my second prediction is correct, you wouldn't need it anymore. Perhaps those who upload could donate their bodies to those who choose not to. That would be nice.
Ahh so the idea would be that the upload wipes the original so there arent multiple copies kicking around.
Seems like making new people would be difficult unless you made everyone keep a bio body until they had reached mental maturity and made more humans ..
Like someone else said either the show upload or the show altered carbon.
I don't know that FlashMobOfOne needs to just apply a dystopian tv show to the only possibility of how they see it playing out. Other ideas are a thing, particularly if they are 100% signing up. Would they still 100% sign up if the copy gets the digital immortality but FlashMobOfOne still has to live on in their own skull regardless? If that's the case why bother? You'd effectively create another person that is based on you but isn't you, they'd think of themselves as you, but OEM hardware would probably still hold the rights to the title.
You'd get a kick from the series Upload, then
Honestly all i can say is thst i hope it never happens. I expect it will be possible given that some people are so hell bent on pursuing it, but my cope theory is thst "hell bent" is the right term, because it would be a living hell.
Reminds me of San Junipero