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Immortality in Machines

Imagine, if you lose a finger and replace it with an artificial organ, would the body would still be you? Continue it gradually with replacing other organs, bits by bits, cells by cells, including your brain cells which consist mostly of neurons. Would the conscious mind inside that body would still be you?

By the way, futurists said that human immortality is within reach, death is just a matter of technical problems that technology would  be able to overcome. Failed organs could be replaced by bionics, consciousness could be stored in non-organic machines. We would practically be sentient robots

However, it is really worrying that  consciousness at a level comparable to human`s could one day be developed inside robots or machines.



Foto source: https://www.newsweek.com/bionic-skin-3d-printed-robots-feel-superhumans-607613

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