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I've wondered about the ability to "download" one's brain pattern and thereby their memories and "consciousness" of sorts into a computer, thereby attaining virtual immortality. I actually considered writing a SciFi novel on this at one point, but abandoned the idea (too busy). Anyway I think the day will come when there is sufficient understanding of the brain's wiring, and sufficiently large computer storage to do this. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but eventually perhaps.

For now though, I find it more natural and more honest to believe solely in us having only whatever time we're given here on earth to compose our thoughts and actions. I don't believe we live on other than as part of a cycle or series of natural processes for our constituent atoms, the energy transformations we perform, etc.
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