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Artificial Afterlives

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Importance of Mind Enhancement in a System

In the novel and book, age 21 and 30 respectively. The twist on Sandman is that you have brain chips in you recording your every thought for mind upload and backup. They do one more really in-depth and destructive scan of your brain and flip you on as a digital person in a dreamlike utopia. Experts can be spun up from the dream into a more normal virtual space or into an android to help with something. Though normally this is for short-term trauma counseling if some loved one can't handle them being gone yet.

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