The act of
emulating a human
consciousness in a
computer environment similar to, and yet probably
aesthetically different than
The Matrix**.
Many
Transhumanists believe that after the
Singularity uploading will become common practice. This is viewed by many to be a great leap forward in the state of
humanity since things like famine and poverty would become nonexistent. "People" would be
immortal if they wanted to, since they could modify their own "
code" they could even
emulate "death", but leave behind a copy of themselves that is still
immortal. The possibilities are truly endless.
Something I would like to comment on here is that while this is a popular idea among
Transhumanists, we cannot even speculate about this because the
Singularity is the point at which the world *as we know it* ends, and anything that happens after that will be beyond us.
**Primary differences would include not needing our
body after we have been uploaded since we exist entirely in the
computer, and being able to modify our own
code.