In the early 2040s, nanobots will be able to go into a living person’s brain and make a copy of all the data that forms the memories and personality of the original person: You 2. Such an entity would be able to pass a person-specific Turing test and convince someone who knew the individual that it really is that person. According to all detectable evidence, they will be as real as the original person, so if you believe that identity is fundamentally about information like memories and personality, this would indeed be the same person. You could have or continue a relationship with that
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Kurzweil sounds excited.
