If I can't live
forever, at least, I would like to have a
backup. I don't know what would I do with that, specially because if what it's left from me is just a backup, then the decision would in the hands of
others.
Assuming our self can be downloaded into a machine, this machine would have to be eternal and unaffected by such things as the end of our Sun, or worst, the end of the universe.
So if we can't live forever, then we would have to exist in some kind of medium, as long as it has some kind of external support. And if this external support is affected by natural laws, then we need some imaginative solution, as the Omega Point Theory proposed by Frank Tipler in his book The physics of immortality (1995).
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