Can we “upload” our consciousness?
Question from the Internet:
“If you could upload your consciousness into a machine, would you still be “you”?”
In order to be “me,” I need to “upload” myself somewhere “outside of me.”
As long as my consciousness resides in me, as long as my whole life, my perception of reality and all my feelings are about “what I think is me,” I am just an imaginary self, living an imaginary life within the imaginary — and 100% egocentric, subjective and individualistic — coordinates of time, space and physical motion.
As long as I experience existence by making all my calculations, decisions, and actions for my own sake, according to my viewpoint, I do not have any chance of experiencing “true life” through something that is called “true love.”
Only when I start learning and practicing this “true love,” aiming at totally selflessly and unconditionally fulfilling the desires and needs of others according to their viewpoints, without any egotistic or subjective bias, only then do I start exploring, tasting, and experiencing who “I” truly am, that part of me that is capable of selflessly, and unconditionally serving and loving others without even noticing that “I” exist.
In this process, I forget about and dismiss my original physical existence to such an extent that I even “forget about” physical life or death, and I do not feel when my physical body dies since “I” — my actual self — continues existing in those I “truly love and serve.”
In theory, I could upload myself and my “loving and serving” consciousness into anything, even a machine, an animal, or a plant. But in order to practically and actually do it, we need to learn first how to mutually “upload” ourselves into each other in a unique Human environment, where everybody commits and devotes themselves to this process.
When we learn and practice how to do this, with the completely new and collective Human consciousness such “true lovers” build and sense, we can upload ourselves into anything and everything and sense reality through every possible angle, viewpoint, activity, and element in nature.