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An older person faces a digital version of themselves emerging from photographs, memories, personal records, and neural information representing digital immortality.
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Digital Immortality

September 18, 2026 By

We are already creating enormous digital archives of ourselves while AI learns to model individuals and brain-computer interfaces translate neural activity into digital information. Could these technologies eventually converge into something that survives us? And if a digital reconstruction becomes conscious, would it still be a copy, or someone new?