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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Carnifex" data-source="post: 2038171" data-attributes="member: 227">Unfortunately scanning a person into a computer doesn't actually generate a 'living' being. For all this talk of immortality we still don't fully understand a number of things about the human body and how, for instance, the brain works, so translating that across into some sort of computer-generated version is made even *more* difficult when you consider the immense amount of stuff we don't fully understand about the physical side of it, and how you would go about programming things you don't understand into a computer.You put the data, down to a subatomic level, of someone's composition into a computer. Then you need to instruct it to make those bits of data actually work to the normal systems of a human body, most specifically the brain. And even *then* you might not get any form of sentience.Then you've got to generate an entire 'real' environment for them to 'live' in; truly real. That means physics and everything - and again, given all the holes in our knowledge on such matters, how can we hope to create a real world just for the folly of making a few beings of debatable existence and watching them like animals in a zoo? The real world will carry on, with far more pressing problems in it.</blockquote>