Why Die, When You Can Download?
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What was once considered science fiction could become a reality, reports the Independent. Scientific advances are pushing the possibilities for achieving a kind of immortality through digital technology.
Downloadable consciousness – the idea that one could copy his memories, feelings, and thought processes as you would a computer file – could provide a breakthrough, with computers large enough to store human memories are also expected to be completed in 2017.
It’s not quite the same as being able to walk the surface of the Earth, but technology could be the closest thing we have for a cure for death.
Read more at the Independent.
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