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The theory that humans will eventually be able to upload our brains to computers has fascinated futurists and neuroscientists for years. By transferring our minds into machines we could live forever, unmoored from the feebleness of our physical bodies. The concepts of death and bereavement as we know them now would cease to exist. “You’ll be scanned and have this 3D construct that can then walk around in virtual worlds and it will retain the things that you did within an AI,” she says. “This kind of avatar could become a repository for our experiences and our memories.”

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The theory that humans will eventually be able to upload our brains to computers has fascinated futurists and neuroscientists for years. By transferring our minds into machines we could live forever, unmoored from the feebleness of our physical bodies. The concepts of death and bereavement as we know them now would cease to exist. “You’ll be scanned and have this 3D construct that can then walk around in virtual worlds and it will retain the things that you did within an AI,” she says. “This kind of avatar could become a repository for our experiences and our memories.”