Imagine the day where your memories will never die, the day where you could never age and where you could feel no pain at all. It almost sounds impossible because of the many circumstances we tend to live throughout our life cycle, but the truth is that technological advances had discovered a way to stop the fear of death and aging with a concept called Transhumanism; and to tell you the truth if I had the chance to upload my consciousness to a computer system and be able to be part of an afterlife, I would.
The research of human evolution has always been an accelerated topic; avoiding and overcoming human aging, death and pain. With technological advances immortality is closer than we think it is, starting with the philosopher Max More arguing that “the self has to be instantiated in some physical medium but not necessarily one that is biologically human—or biological at all.” explaining that our body is just a container where we store the human mind, but the consciousness not necessarily should be preserved within our body boundaries. As a manner of fact, the only possible way to store our consciousness and improve our human capacities is throughout a virtual reality.
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David Pearce, is another philosopher in favor of Transhumanism because of the elimination of physical suffering in the world; which he refers to the pain that a large amount of people has to go through because of their health. As people that suffer from paralysis and don’t have the ability to move most part of their bodies, would have the chance to re-experience the feeling of body movement in virtual