Artificial Afterlives
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Importance of Mind Uploading
From a religious or spiritual perspective this case on Sandman is the same as normal life extension or mind uploading scenarios. Uploading your mind can be a bit tricky where souls are concerned if you've got one. Since someone can't presumably have this done to them against their will we cannot simply assume anyone will revive this way is automatically getting tossed in the inferno. So I tend to assume if your soul exists and does not make the trip to your new form then it's probably going to be readily apparent in some fashion like you act you at total lunatic or psycho are la Linda Blair from the exorcist. If not then we had to assume your soul wasn't specifically pertinent to your behavior
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