I don't think it will be a brain copying thing. I think we will have implants that connect us to a cyber body and a cyber neural network. We will come to rely o

I don't think it will be a brain copying thing. I think we will have implants that connect us to a cyber body and a cyber neural network. We will come to rely on that part of our "brain" and we will spend part of our time in that body. As we age, we will spend more and more time attending to our cyber half. As it grows, our flesh half will atrophy. The brain cells will quiet, our muscles will grow weak. Eventually our heart will stop, long after we stopped using it for much. What is left will be purely digital, and to our friends it will seem like nothing has changed. But it won't be a clone. It will be more like a metamorphosis. The caterpillar gave way to the butterfly. It didn't die, but its body was used up and transformed into something else. I do wonder if it will feel like death. In that moment, when we draw our attention back to our last remaining brain cells, and our last remaining heart beats, will our cyborg half really feel like part of us, or will there still be a sense that the machine within us is Other? I suspect not. I suspect we will have long since spread our identity across the divide. But maybe that is a choice we will all have to make. Whether to see it as death or birth.