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“Dr Sandberg believes we could be living on hard drives along with our digital possessions in the not too distant future, which would allow us to shed the trouble of owning a body.
The concept is called ‘mind uploading’, and it suggests that when our bodies age and begin to fail like a worn or snapped record, we may be able to continue living consciously inside a computer as our own virtual substitutes.
‘It’s the idea that we can copy or transfer the information inside the brain into a form that can be run on the computer,’ said Dr Sandberg.”
Thought provoking piece on transitioning the physical to digital. The rest of the article is about minimalist lifestyle; “mind uploading” is the ultimate extension. Intriguing, of course (immortality!), but a distant likelihood. In the meantime, lots of intriguing bioengineering going on (http://bit.ly/bkpaJA).
http://www.pcworld.com/article/203424/
