{"id":88051,"date":"2019-02-21T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfer-your-consciousness-to-an-artificial-body-so-you-can-live-forever"},"modified":"2019-02-21T12:43:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T20:43:28","slug":"a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfer-your-consciousness-to-an-artificial-body-so-you-can-live-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfer-your-consciousness-to-an-artificial-body-so-you-can-live-forever","title":{"rendered":"A New Start-Up Wants to Transfer Your Consciousness to an Artificial Body So You Can Live Forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfer-your-consciousness-to-an-artificial-body-so-you-can-live-forever2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2015<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Death is the one thing that\u2019s guaranteed in today\u2019s uncertain world, but now a new start-up called Humai thinks it might be able to get rid of that inconvenient problem for us too, by promising to transfer people\u2019s consciousness into a new, artificial body.<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds like science fiction, and that\u2019s because it still is, with none of the technology required for Humai\u2019s business plan currently up and running. But that\u2019s not deterring the company\u2019s CEO, Josh Bocanegra, who says his team will resurrect their first human <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com.au\/science\/medicine\/humai-wants-to-resurrect-humans-within-30-years,412164\">within 30 years<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you go about transferring someone\u2019s consciousness to another robot body? As Humai <a href=\"http:\/\/humaitech.com\/\">explains on their website<\/a> (which comes complete with new-age backing music):<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfer-your-consciousness-to-an-artificial-body-so-you-can-live-forever\">https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-new-start-up-wants-to-transfe...ve-forever<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2015 Death is the one thing that\u2019s guaranteed in today\u2019s uncertain world, but now a new start-up called Humai thinks it might be able to get rid of that inconvenient problem for us too, by promising to transfer people\u2019s consciousness into a new, artificial body. If it sounds like science fiction, and that\u2019s because [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,269,42,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-life-extension","category-media-arts","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88051","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}