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RE: Immortality: when will it start and how will I want it to work
I can tell you, that's not how immortality will look like. Instead we will find out about the bugs in our DNA and correct them to stop aging. Further we will write new DNA code like in computer programs...
What stops us from building "backups" of ourselves then? If our body gets destroyed, we just transfer our actual or past mind into a new body. But I also think that our first steps lie in altering our DNA and preserving our youth through nanobots (cleaning our blood, etc.), adding new knowledge via brain stimulation, etc.
Aging doesn't have to happen in the first place, then you don't even need cleanups. And regeneration can cure any kind of destruction. Maybe the data of the brain can somehow be backuped, but honestly I am a little afraid of it. If you backup you can copy yourself multiple times. But who is you then? Are you fighting against yourself? where you not already dying if your brain is destroid, also if there IS a copy? Its just a clone...
If I meet my clone - and if it's really my clone - I'd fucking high five myself and discuss terms! ;-)
But it's really an interesting question, because the clone does obviously not share my conscious, or at least I have no control over the thoughts of my clone. Will we be able to "transfer conscious" from one body into another? I mean we don't really understand the conscious as it is... for everyone else an exact clone copy would be indistinguishable
I guess the discussion with a clone including same brain will be kind of boring.
"i think this..", "yea me to, I think that", "yea exactly the same".
The problem you mention is what I wanted to point out. If you copy your brain somewhere else, its not you any more. Its a copy of you...
Aging has been related to the accumulation of debris in the body, so cleanups are actually the way to go according to certain researchers.
An example:
https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2016/03/dna-debris-from-dying-fat-cells-causes-chronic-inflammation/
The body can cleanup himself... if you program dna to do it..., but of course it has to do that, before it's getting destroyed.