{"id":99306,"date":"2019-12-04T00:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/digital-immortality-transhumanism-may-hold-key-to-eternal-life-along-with-multiple-caveats-ethical-dilemmas"},"modified":"2019-12-04T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T08:02:37","slug":"digital-immortality-transhumanism-may-hold-key-to-eternal-life-along-with-multiple-caveats-ethical-dilemmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/digital-immortality-transhumanism-may-hold-key-to-eternal-life-along-with-multiple-caveats-ethical-dilemmas","title":{"rendered":"Digital immortality: Transhumanism may hold key to eternal life, along with multiple caveats &amp; ethical dilemmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/digital-immortality-transhumanism-may-hold-key-to-eternal-life-along-with-multiple-caveats-ethical-dilemmas.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some people hope to cheat death by storing their consciousness digitally. Science isn\u2019t quite there yet, but we\u2019ve done enough brain and memory research to have immediate implications \u2013 and to start asking uncomfortable questions.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of attaining de facto immortality by translating your brain into code and storing your personality as a digital copy online has been captivating people\u2019s imagination for quite some time. It is particularly popular among transhumanists, people who advocate enhancing human intellect and physiology through the most sophisticated technology available.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>As the most technologically advanced nations around the world pour resources into brain studies and yesterday\u2019s science fiction becomes reality, it might seem that humanity is nearing a breakthrough in this field. Could the ability to become a<em> \u201cghost in the shell\u201d<\/em> \u2013 like in the iconic cyberpunk Japanese manga, or the 2017 film \u2013 be just around the corner?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people hope to cheat death by storing their consciousness digitally. Science isn\u2019t quite there yet, but we\u2019ve done enough brain and memory research to have immediate implications \u2013 and to start asking uncomfortable questions. The idea of attaining de facto immortality by translating your brain into code and storing your personality as a digital [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269,47,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-extension","category-neuroscience","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99306","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\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}