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Vol.1, Issue 47, September 2022 ELITE

‘Digital Immortality technology ’…

How could we live forever ?!

Mayar saber - level four - Political science
‘’No one lives forever” it is a fact that we already Certainly, this idea did not go unnoticed by Elon
believe in, but currently while watching science Musk, who expressed his admiration for the idea of
fiction films and series, you can easily find out that the immortality of consciousness in artificial bodies
some of them are concentrated around one idea, which and stated: "If your bodies died biologically, you can
is digital immortality, not a long time ago, nobody load it into a new entity." The Russian billionaire
took the idea seriously beyond research and "Dmitriy Itkov" spends millions of dollars to put his
discussion. data, all his ideas, and his mind on a 3D robot, to
But recently, technicians are working through several finish manufacturing it in 2045 to work after his death
means to avoid death, including uploading the human and keep him alive forever. Such inventions are
brain to a computer, and this could happen through similar to those seen in the sci-fi series ‘’Black
what is known as digital immortality, which is defined Mirror’’ The startup company ‘ Netcom’, for
as the process of creating copies of people’s thoughts example, believes that humans will be able to
and feeling after their death, not just creating fixed digitalize their consciousness within the next century.
copies Rather, sophisticated digital entities that can But such modern technologies that open the door to
run companies or even influence global events, learn eternal life carry with them much of religious, ethical,
and adapt. One of those techniques is a program and philosophical issues, which issued a wide
called ‘Augmented Eternity’ which will be able to controversy among moral philosophers and others,
transmit memories from your life and answer one of them is the philosopher and bioethicist John
questions on certain topics, such as your political Harris who doubts the ability of even the most rational
opinions, based on stored information and data. person to live in a hypothetical version of himself. He
The Wall Street Journal has published an article adds: "We are creatures of flesh and blood, and it is
noting that several startups anticipate a growing hard to imagine that we can exist in a non-physical
demand for digital characters, including Replika, an situation." In fact, these issues of digitization may also
app that learns to copy a person in the form of a lead to widening social inequality, according to many
Chatbot, and Hereafter AI, which records life stories experts, like ‘’Nidaal Qasoum’’ a professor at the
of the people and uses it to create copies put on a American University of Sharjah, who thought that
smart speaker. Indeed, Microsoft has taken a only the richest class of people can afford to
pioneering step and obtained a patent for the use of "digitalize" themselves. This creates a frightening
chatbots to embody historical figures and actual prospect of the appearance of one class that contains
people. These digital characters take many forms, technologically advanced humans. The worst-case
from chatbots to mobile robots that react and speak scenario that may happen is the argument of some
like real human beings all of this is based on artificial technologists that uploading our memories and
intelligence techniques that build these robots and consciousness to devices could put us in front of the
Back train them to interact with people. Indeed, hologram danger of having our brains hacked and our actions
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controlled by digital hacks.
performances by departed artists and musicians were
To FEPS already done in several events. So.. Will we ever be able to stop the one thing that
To FEPS
To FEPS
cannot be avoided in life... which is death?!
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