Trascending through time

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The point is, we are just a couple centuries to put our minds in a computer (maybe even less), and we will die before it happens. Its infuriating. Back in the day we had to accept we would die. Now we have to accept we wont live long enough to have the chance to live indefinitely. It hurts.

Yes, I agree in spirit. I think we might be much closer than two centuries from being capable of putting our minds in a computer (if such a thing turns about to be possible; we don't really know what consciousness is) but it will probably be too late for those of us alive today - and it is indeed infuriating! So close but yet so far!

But there are many possibilities. General Relativity says that the past, present and future all exist in 4-dimensional space-time. One of the cliches of modern science is to never go against Einstein. All that do inevitably go down in flames. General Relativity is as solid as any scientific theory ever proposed. It has withstood > 100 years of efforts to falsify it. And it says there really isn't any death. It says that all of time in this universe exists until the end of the universe.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO_Q_f1WgQI

If Einstein was right (and he has a track record of being that) you are not running out of time. There is all the time in the world for your mind to be downloaded to a computer - if anyone in the future cares to do that. That is the biggest question as far as I'm concerned. Will anyone consider you worthy of saving? I can't begin to answer that question.

I won't lay on my deathbed and take much confidence that the laws of General Relativity will guarantee me an afterlife but I'll take some comfort that they MIGHT. There is some hope - at least as much as those who take faith in primitive beliefs based on ancient fairy tales.