1/20/19:
There is an article on Drudge Report today that claims that humans can or will soon be able to download their souls onto microships so that they can live forever.
I think it will never be doable and is absurd.
One objection stated was that the soul is not a physical thing that can be downloaded onto a microchp, and I agree.
Still, say that AI robots constitute, at some point, intelligent life, a new species of beings made by human scientists and inventors. Those smart robots would have souls, and, therefore a spiritual existence as well as their physical existence as electro-mechanical machines and smart beings.
Could a smart robot download its soul or a human soul onto a microchip so that these creatures could live forever. My guess is that it one day would be possible.
I also ask why it would be necessary, advantageous or evil moral. We humans and coming smart robots have or will have souls that walk along side our biological bodies or our electro-mechanical bodies all our lives. When we die these souls go on and live a along time in the spiritual realm, maybe forever, If that is so, why do we need to imprint or download our souls onto a microchip to achieve some sort of immortality.
I have written elsewhere many times that death is one of God's greatest gifts to humans. Immortal beings cannot change or may not be able to change: they may only keep perfecting their wills in the bent that they were made in.
God is pure good or close to it. Satan is pure evil, or close to it. Their will is free, but, after so long, forever almost or actually, being respectively good or evil, they cannot freely will to sin (for God) or to good (for Satan).
Sauraman to the contrary, the good wizards in Lord of the Rings are pure goodness or mostly goodness. Sauron is pure evil, or close to it.
The elves are pure goodness (like God's angels) and the orcs are pure evil (like demons that serve Satan). They do not have free will; they are genetically what they are.
The humans, dwarves and hobbits in Lord of the Rings are part beast (more beast than angel so they are basically evil, but partially good, so therefore salvageable by God and capable of receiving God's grace and all its benefits) and part angel. They are mortal.
They are the ones that wield free will. In their domain is where the battle to grow goodness or to grow evil in the universe is fought.
The good robots on God's side and the evil robots on Satan's side may grow or decrease the size of their masters' kingdom based on how victoriously or how poorly they are waging the perennial struggle for world dominion in all dominions, but in the realm of free will mortals, that is where the potential for gain or loss, for the cause of God or Satan, is realized.
In light of this, putting human memories and personality on a microchip, as suggested in the Drudge Article, seems like a silly, fruitless exercise.
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