This is incredibly interesting, and makes me wonder whether or not we'll ever reach a point where we crack the code and can upload our consciousness to a kind of "cloud" to essentially live forever - or at least until the server dies.
Consider this post added to our agenda for the podcast this weekend, time permitting. ;-)
I think such transcendence is quite possible. We are certainly on the path where we will ultimately merge with the very machines we create and once that happens, a cloud consciousness would just be a matter of "programming".
Thanks for reading :) Will be sure to check out the podcast :D