> But it is possible with artificial intelligence. Once consciousness has been digitized, you can beam it at the speed of light to a receiver. That may not rem

> But it is possible with artificial intelligence. Once consciousness has been digitized, you can beam it at the speed of light to a receiver. That may not remain true. The ability to serialize consciousness does not come for free, it requires extra wiring to carry all information out of the system or to stream it in, which is an intrinsic inefficiency. All other things kept equal, a brain's performance ceiling is higher if you only locally connect the units/neurons that need to be connected and nothing else, but in doing so you give up digitizability. It is entirely possible that future AI, in order to be performant enough, will lose the ability to be transmitted in the way that you describe.