Digital Immortality
Hypothetical concept of storing a person's personality or consciousness in a digital format to achieve a form of immortality.
Core metadata
- ID: digital_immortality
- Era: Future
- First known date: 2035 (decade)
- Region: Forecast / not yet broadly established
- Review status: structurally_validated
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (artificial_general_intelligence)
- Data Storage (Petascale/Exascale) (data_storage_petascale_exascale)
- Direct Neural Simulation (Whole Brain Emulation - Detailed) (direct_neural_simulation_whole_brain_emulation_detailed)
Dependents
- Global Consciousness Network (Hypothetical) (global_consciousness_network)
- Virtual Afterlife Simulations & Digital Legacies (virtual_afterlife_simulations_digital_legacies)
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Wikipedia page for Digital Immortality (Wikipedia, 2026, textbook) • Supports: node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 35%
- Prerequisite sources: 0
- speculative: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Neural Simulation (Whole Brain Emulation - Detailed) (direct_neural_simulation_whole_brain_emulation_detailed) | speculative | 35% | speculative | Direct Neural Simulation (Whole Brain Emulation - Detailed) is a plausible dependency for a forecast technology and should be treated as speculative. | No sources recorded. |
| Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) (artificial_general_intelligence) | speculative | 35% | speculative | Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is a plausible dependency for a forecast technology and should be treated as speculative. | No sources recorded. |
| Data Storage (Petascale/Exascale) (data_storage_petascale_exascale) | speculative | 35% | speculative | Data Storage (Petascale/Exascale) is a plausible dependency for a forecast technology and should be treated as speculative. | No sources recorded. |
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