30 Jun '17 05:09>1 edit
Originally posted by sonhouseSo far, science has not found a way to "download" that which makes you "you". That is because it is NOT only the neurons, but the interface (so far undiscovered) between the brain and the soul that makes "you" possible. "You" is far more than the merely physical. What we call the "soul" could be just a collection of quantum states, but this is mere conjecture.
If it ever were possible to exactly duplicate our brains in a robot, copy the brain to a robot, and the robot looked like us, people could think that robot is the person but of course the person is in the original body and the two are totally separate, especially considering the divergence of personality after the download, where two people would have different thought patterns as soon as they were downloaded.
This is why we'll never have teleporters like on Star Trek. They cannot record the soul, nor can they destroy or, rather, disassemble it. Nor could they build another from matter and give it your "soul pattern". You'd arrive on the other side an exact physical copy of "you", but it wouldn't be "you".