Why do many techno-optimists believe that your consciousness—the real ‘you’—can be uploaded to non-biological media and live on and on? Is their belief justified? Could they be missing something? Dr Susan Schneider is a philosopher and artificial intelligence (AI) expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
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11 October 2026
Susan Schneider, PhD, on Virtual Immortality
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Why do many techno-optimists believe that your consciousness—the real ‘you’—can be uploaded to non-biological media and live on and on? Is their belief justified? Could they be missing something? Dr Susan Schneider is a philosopher and artificial intelligence (AI) expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
Why do many techno-optimists believe that your consciousness—the real ‘you’—can be uploaded to non-biological media and live on and on? Is their belief justified? Could they be missing something? Dr Susan Schneider is a philosopher and artificial intelligence (AI) expert. She is the founding director of the Center for the Future Mind at Florida Atlantic University, where she also holds the William F. Dietrich Distinguished Professorship. Schneider has also held the Baruch S. Blumberg NASA/Library of Congress Chair in Astrobiology, Exploration, and Scientific Innovation at NASA and the Distinguished Scholar Chair at the Library of Congress.
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