I like to argue that I might be immortal, just for the fun of it. I already have a line of defense prepared. It goes like this : You can’t actually prove me wrong since I haven’t died yet. Maybe that won’t ever happen. Immortality itself is just a word to which you can assign different meanings, either literally or figuratively. While the first point is rather trivial, and the whole discussion is mostly for fun or ice breaking purposes, let’s dive a little deeper.

I used to think that “virtualizing” people would be one way for humanity to reach immortality. This has been explored in Sci-Fi, for example in Neuromancer where this device called a construct can hold a person’s personality, with whom you can then later interact past their death. It is also already possible to interact with chatbots, and in certain circumstances it becomes difficult to tell if you are interacting with a machine or a human, which makes you wonder if Turing’s test (which is supposed to determine if a machine has become “intelligent”), is not already soon going to be made obsolete.