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There are a few (mostly wacky) ideas about this.
On one theory, humans could download our brains into computers and out intelligence ‘signature’ would remain alive. That’s not really living though, that’s just a very accurate interactive diary of a dead person. To put it simply, a computer can’t value something differently because it’s ‘my information’ over simply being ‘information’, the computer download of your brain thus doesn’t really have self-identity. I have a colleague who created a chat-bot that can respond to questions in the same way as sociologist Max Weber might have - this is just an approximation made by closely analysing all his writings, and doesn’t make Weber ‘immortal’ any more than writing a book does.
The other version is the idea that we could ‘cure’ the ageing gene. If you do that, and live a healthy lifestyle, you might make it to 200 before cancer or some other disease gets you. If you cure all diseases and reverse old-age then the only way to die is in accidents or by violence. Since those make up about 10% of deaths at present, you can predict an average lifespan of 10x present, or about 800 years (roughly the age of Adam and the other patriarchs in Genesis), but 5 year olds would still run out in front of cars and be tragically killed.
Still no immortality. Nothing to see here.
On one theory, humans could download our brains into computers and out intelligence ‘signature’ would remain alive. That’s not really living though, that’s just a very accurate interactive diary of a dead person. To put it simply, a computer can’t value something differently because it’s ‘my information’ over simply being ‘information’, the computer download of your brain thus doesn’t really have self-identity. I have a colleague who created a chat-bot that can respond to questions in the same way as sociologist Max Weber might have - this is just an approximation made by closely analysing all his writings, and doesn’t make Weber ‘immortal’ any more than writing a book does.
The other version is the idea that we could ‘cure’ the ageing gene. If you do that, and live a healthy lifestyle, you might make it to 200 before cancer or some other disease gets you. If you cure all diseases and reverse old-age then the only way to die is in accidents or by violence. Since those make up about 10% of deaths at present, you can predict an average lifespan of 10x present, or about 800 years (roughly the age of Adam and the other patriarchs in Genesis), but 5 year olds would still run out in front of cars and be tragically killed.
Still no immortality. Nothing to see here.