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Originally Posted by Niamh.

ohhh Interesting, that would be weird if we were able to transfer our consciousness like that someday, the next step in evolution maybe

I genuinely think the ability to transfer a human consciousness into a synthetic body isnt that far off, like a few hundred years.

The scary thing is that it wouldn't really be a transfer - it would be a copy - to make it like a transfer you'd then have to kill the one "transferring". The Paul Rudd show "living with yourself" goes I to that quite well I think. Basic premise is that people get this treatment that rejuvenates them and makes their bodies fresh/younger... But it turns out they actually make a clone, transfer the consciousness and destroy the original without the person knowing. (Of course, they mess up and Paul Rudd's original survives, resulting in two Paul Rudd's and much high-jinx).