The first people uploaded their consciousness to the cloud. Can they really live forever?

Andrew Kaplan, a 78-year-old American writer, will become one of the first "virtual humans" in the world through the memory preservation project of the Silicon Valley startup "Afterlife". ? This is not a new concept. A long time ago, science fiction works put forward the idea of "uploading human consciousness to the computer and living in that world forever". In recent 10 years, with the development of computer science, more and more scientists and startups began to study how to connect the human brain with the computer, trying to simulate the activities of the human brain with the computer, and finally realize "consciousness upload".

Memory preservation? Strictly speaking, Andrew Kaplan can't really "live" on the server. ? Since then, no attempt has been made to connect Kaplan's brain with a computer. What it does is to collect information from Kaplan who is still alive, listen to him tell his own experiences, opinions and even personality characteristics, sort out this information, form a knowledge structure, and then build an AI chat robot that can interact with others. ?

Andrew Kaplan has a legendary life experience. He was a war correspondent in his twenties, participated in the third Middle East War as a member of the Israeli army, and then became an entrepreneur. At the same time, he is also a novel writer and screenwriter. At the age of 78, he hopes that his story will continue to spread after his death and that his young wife and other relatives will continue to understand himself. This is just in line with the slogan of the afterlife, "Never lose the person you love".

In the future, humans will use advanced high-tech computers to enhance their brain capabilities, and things like replacing the brain are likely to be ignored until we run out of computer capabilities. ? However, since mankind has acquired such a powerful ability, it is probably not a problem to maintain the immortality of the body. Therefore, the so-called eternal thinking is now a hypothesis after all.