{"id":131927,"date":"2021-12-07T13:43:59","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/will-we-ever-cheat-death-and-become-immortal-with-mind-uploading"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:43:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:43:59","slug":"will-we-ever-cheat-death-and-become-immortal-with-mind-uploading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/will-we-ever-cheat-death-and-become-immortal-with-mind-uploading","title":{"rendered":"Will We Ever Cheat Death and Become Immortal With Mind Uploading?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CG-9MLr8d7k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Could we interest you in a humanoid vessel to transfer your consciousness into?<\/p>\n<p>Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of immortality but what seems to be even more exciting to some is the thought of using technology to make immortality a real-world application. A movement called transhumanism is even devoted to using science and technology to augment our bodies and our minds, and to allow humans to merge with machines, eradicating old age as a cause of death. So the big question is \u2014 can we really evade death?<\/p>\n<p>From Hans Moravec\u2019s classic book Mind Children to Gene Roddenberry\u2019s iconic TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the idea of uploading a person\u2019s feelings, memories, and experiences onto a machine, has been explored in many popular non-fiction and fiction works. However, whether or not mind uploading could become a reality, like 3D printers, robots, and driverless cars? We are yet to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could we interest you in a humanoid vessel to transfer your consciousness into? Humans have always been fascinated with the concept of immortality but what seems to be even more exciting to some is the thought of using technology to make immortality a real-world application. A movement called transhumanism is even devoted to using science [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}