Can your mind outlive your body? This episode explores the fast-approaching, controversial future of digital immortality. From full brain uploads to AI "generative ghosts," we dig into the science, ethics, and implications of a digital afterlife.

🔍 Topics

• Science and myths behind mind uploading
• Challenges of coding the brain
• AI recreations of real people
• "Generative ghosts" via social media data
• Legal, emotional, and ethical dilemmas
• Grief-tech: comfort or exploitation?
• Effects on identity, relationships, belief

🎧 Listen If You Wonder:

• Could I live on as AI?
• What happens to my data when I die?
• Would an AI twin of a loved one help me grieve?
• Could avatars inherit or vote?

📚 Resources

• Kurzgesagt: Mind Uploading
• Mind Uploading – Wikipedia
• Digital Afterlife Industry – VICE
• Generative Ghosts – Slate

• HereAfter AI
• Beyond Life
• DeepBrain AI: Re;memory
• PersonaAI
• Microsoft AI Patent – The Verge

🧠 Real Examples

• Roman Mazurenko: Chatbot from his texts

• Fredbot: Ray Kurzweil’s AI dad

• John Lennon AI: Voice used to finish a Beatles song

⚖️ Ethical Questions

• Who owns your digital self?
• Can it be hacked or cloned?
• Should copies be allowed?
• Can it be deleted legally?

💬 Final Thoughts

As AI mimics people’s minds, the line between life and death blurs. Hopeful or horrifying, this future raises urgent societal questions. Is it rebirth—or something darker?

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Music by Ribhav Agrawal from Pixabay