Your Mind into a Computer Would Not Be You

The transhumanist fantasy about becoming immortal through uploading your mind to a computer is nonsense -- even if such a thing could be done.

Here's the goal. From the Express story:

Mr Itskov has been subject to a BBC documentary titled The Immortalist, in which he said: "Within the next 30 years, I am going to make sure that we can all live forever.

"I'm 100 per cent confident it will happen. Otherwise I wouldn't have started it."

The 2045 Initiative hopes to have functioning 'avatars' by...