Could digital immortality really save you, or just create a convincing copy? We explore mind uploading, backups, identity, and whether survival means continuity… or redundancy.
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Credits:
Digital Immortality – Backing Up the Human Soul
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:43 What Are We Actually Backing Up?
7:36 The Roads to Immortality: Uploading vs Gradualism
13:56 The Copy Problem: You’re Still in the Chair
16:38 Practical Identity: What Do You Actually Do About It?
19:12 Why We’d Build Backups Anyway
22:00 Oldest & Newest
23:12 Failure Modes, Uses, and the Meaning of Survival