The real question is, why would you want to be?
Most human beings live in the state of constant desire. And it doesn’t really matter what the object of that desire is. It can be power, money, sex, food and so on and so forth. What’s worse, even if one desire is satisfied, human mind is never contented. If will immediately create the next desire and outright misery for the underlying individual.
That is why most people are never happy, rich or poor, living in the hell of their own making. In that regard, living forever would literally translate to living in perpetual hell described in the Bible. Higher levels of consciousness must be obtained first.
For those of you interested in the subject matter, consider the following
Mind Transfer To A Computer Could Be Possible By 2050. Immortality May Be Within Reach
The functions of mind that we experience are originally implemented through neurobiological mechanisms, the neural circuitry of our brains. If the same functions are implemented in a different operating substrate, populated with parameters and operating such that they produce the same results as they would in the brain, then that mind has become substrate-independent. It is a substrate-independent mind (SIM) by being able to function in different operating substrates. The popular term ‘mind uploading’ can refer to the process of transfer, moving a specific substrate-independent mind from one operating substrate (e.g., the biological brain) to another.
There are a lot of people selling the idea that you can mimic the brain with a computer. You could have all the computer chips ever in the world and you won’t create a consciousness. – Miguel Nicolelis
Fascinating stuff!!!
