New startup aims to transfer people's consciousness into artificial bodies so they can live forever
As advancements in technology continue at an ever-increasing pace, will there ever come a day when we’ll be able to use science to cheat death? Australian startup company Humai seems to think so; it claims to be working on a way to transfer a person’s consciousness into an artificial body after they’ve died.
“We want to bring you back to life after you die,” says Humai CEO Josh Bocanegra on the company’s website.
“We’re using artificial intelligence and nanotechnology to store data of conversational styles, behavioral patterns, thought processes and information about how your body functions from the inside-out. This data will be coded into multiple sensor technologies, which will be built into an artificial body with the brain of a deceased human. Using cloning technology, we will restore the brain as it matures.”
In an interview with Australian Popular Science, Bocanegra said: “We'll first collect extensive data on our members for years prior to their death via various apps we're developing.” After death, the company will cryogenically freeze members’ brains until the technology is fully developed, at which point the brains will be implanted into an artificial body.
“The artificial body functions will be controlled with your thoughts by measuring brain waves. As the brain ages we'll use nanotechnology to repair and improve cells. Cloning technology is going to help with this too.”
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Of course, this outfit is likely founded by those singularity kooks, who think everything is going to be magic in 20-30 years.
Ray Kurzweil? Complete kook!
Basically, they're offering to freeze the pigeons' brains like Walt Disney did, and wait till their apps are perfected. Or not.
Oh, and company executives would have to assign employees to follow the super wealthy clients around for years to "capture" their unique mental attributes and knowledge.
Of course they'd have to know about where the billions are kept and which works of art or antiquities are worth the most on the black market.
Nothing could go wrong for the mark with this con, now could it?
Won't be long before Barbarossa gets around to programming Omnius, then the REAL fun can begin.
Buy shares in Arrakis now! 
Or, if Dune isn't your thing, you can consider Eclipse Phase's take on it, where this 'technology' will be used along with the Panopticon (the all-pervasice surveillance system) to (taking light liberty with source material now) to make copies ('forks') of yourself that can be uploaded into worker bodies like these. A permanent worker with no need to eat, breathe, drink, or relax...
Tesla was oh so right.
