By Vassilios Della Cioppa | Published 3/27/2022
Living forever may be years away.
Themed digital heavens will be a thing.
Neuralink may save the existence of humans.
If you don’t know what Neuralink does, I suggest you read my previous post: (Elon Musk’s Neuralink: What They Do, How The Tech Works, And Its Potential Impact.)
Intro:
For thousands of years, people have searched for the secret to eternal life, and it may reveal soon, thanks to Elon Musk and Neuralink. Their almost unbelievable technology may allow people to die naturally or be uploaded into a digital afterlife until they decide to download back into a biological lifeform.
With the introduction of their Link device, Neuralink may help preserve people as individuals essentially forever. They may even be able to maintain all of our human memory and planet data past the expiration date of our solar system.
Uploading:
Traditional death is a sad, permanent, mysterious journey that we still don’t know much about, but for the linked dying will be a very different experience.
Linked users’ neurological data could be saved through monthly neural data deposits to a memory bank or a one-time upload from the implanted Link upon death; this should yield a successful upload to a digital afterlife with their entire essence and memory intact.
Living In The Digital Afterlife:
There will be options for the digital afterlife: government, company-owned, non-profit, and personal programs, all with pros and cons. Some digital heavens would be expensive or glitchy, maybe even lack proper security and get hacked, but many would suffice.
Government afterlife programs may run like their real-life ones; in this case, depending on where you live, your government heaven may not be that enjoyable and heavily monitored, but still an option.
Company-owned digital heavens would be more expensive than the government, but they would be exciting. Picture waking up and living every day in a Disney or Dragonball universe, The Wizarding World, all Pokémon regions, even different periods like The Middle Ages, Prehistoric, Jurassic, any theme you can imagine.
Non-profit organizations would be similar to company-owned afterlives but may not have as many bells and whistles, but still probably worth checking out.
Personal digital heavens would probably be the most expensive, but let family members physically store you on a cold/hot storage device themselves; no company will care about your life data more than your own family. If you ever get bored of your custom heaven, you could also transfer to other private neural repositories or even explore government and company-owned themed heavens as vacations. Exploring many different digital universes for a while would be thrilling, but eventually, you may want to download back into the real world.
Downloading:
After you explore all that you can and get tired of your digital heaven and want to see, hear, feel, taste, and fully experience real-life again, you may have a few download options for when you return: a donated host body, clone, robot, or maybe even an animal.
Future versions of Neuralink’s surgical robot may make all this possible. It could download your life data into a new Link and seamlessly implant it into a chosen host, or maybe into multiple Links at once, allowing you to bounce your consciousness between or use them simultaneously.
Saving Human Existence:
The Neuralink Link can upload, store, and download you forever, or at least until the Sun starts to get too hot for biological life to sustain on Earth. If we ever want to become biological lifeforms again after our Sun is no longer suitable, we will have to travel to other star systems and start over.
When Earth begins to become too hostile for life, we may be able to download all our collective consciousness into SpaceX Ark AI-type ships for safe interstellar travel to known possible habitable planets outside our solar system.
Once the ships arrive at these new planets, advanced Neuralink surgical robots could transfer part of our consciousness and DNA into alien creatures and evolve them to the point that they could host an entire human consciousness file. This artificially developed alien species would be a more suitable traditional biological vessel for us that fits the planet in particular. Maybe this already happened.
Conclusion:
The thought of living forever is exciting to some, but it sounds like hell to others, and it will take time before all this comes to fruition, but it’s on track to happen in our lifetime. Will you choose to die a natural death with no previous memory of your past lives, or live until the end of time in digital heaven, perhaps past it?
If the concepts in this post interest you, I recommend the Amazon show, Upload. It’s hilarious, and I believe it gives a good comedic insight into what this future may look like. I have provided a YouTube link for the trailer in the image below. 😊
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