"I have a standing bet that Kurzweil will die in my lifetime before he will be able to upload himself to a synthetic body with a friend of mine." My response t

"I have a standing bet that Kurzweil will die in my lifetime before he will be able to upload himself to a synthetic body with a friend of mine." My response to all things Kurzweil has always been barely interested dismissal. However, a few years ago I read an in-depth piece, with interview, wherein he pinned almost all of his motivation on his early, traumatic experience of his own (beloved) fathers death. Now my response is a very deep sadness for him. What he wants is so simple and easiy achievable - to have a child of his own. Literal immortality (at the species layer, not the (cancerous) individual layer) was there for him all along - and it included all of the love and care and devotion that he has spent his lifetime mourning.