{"id":140447,"date":"2022-06-12T10:11:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elon-musk-says-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots-and-grimes-thinks-jeff-bezos-would-do-it"},"modified":"2022-06-12T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:11:58","slug":"elon-musk-says-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots-and-grimes-thinks-jeff-bezos-would-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/06\/elon-musk-says-humans-could-eventually-download-their-brains-into-robots-and-grimes-thinks-jeff-bezos-would-do-it","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says humans could eventually download their brains into robots \u2014 and Grimes thinks Jeff Bezos would do it"},"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\/TrVKfRH_v3I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is possible,\u201d Musk, 50, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/elon-musk-interview-axel-springer-tesla-war-in-ukraine-2022-3\" target=\"_blank\">recently told Insider<\/a>. \u201cYes, we could download the things that we believe make ourselves so unique. Now, of course, if you\u2019re not in that body anymore, that is definitely going to be a difference, but as far as preserving our memories, our personality, I think we could do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>By Musk\u2019s account, such technology will be a gradual evolution from today\u2019s forms of computer memory. \u201cOur memories are stored in our phones and computers with pictures and video,\u201d he said. \u201cComputers and phones amplify our ability to communicate, enabling us to do things that would have been considered magical \u2026 We\u2019ve already amplified our human brains massively with computers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The concept of prolonging human life by downloading consciousnesses into synthetic bodies has been a fixture of science-fiction for decades, with the 1964 sci-fi novel \u201cDune\u201d terming such beings as \u201ccymeks.\u201d Some experts today believe that \u201cmind uploading\u201d technology could, in fact, be feasible one day \u2014 but the timeline is incredibly unclear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think it is possible,\u201d Musk, 50, recently told Insider. \u201cYes, we could download the things that we believe make ourselves so unique. Now, of course, if you\u2019re not in that body anymore, that is definitely going to be a difference, but as far as preserving our memories, our personality, I think we could do [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140447","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}