Science recently found a possible way for our consciousness to live on long after our body's death, through the discovery and function of the Dyson Sphere megastructure.

Likened to the "San Junipero" episode of Black Mirror -- which focused on a world where our consciousness is uploaded to a database --  scientists deemed the sphere megastructure as the agent responsible to tell a future AI (artificial intelligence) source the "historical and personal data" needed to "build an exact digital copy" of us, as reported by Popular Mechanics.

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Since 2014, Alexey Turchin, transhumanist and life extensionist, has been working on "Plan C" of an "Immortality Roadmap" project. The Russian scientist worked on these recent findings with researcher Maxim Chernyakov.

Turchin was inspired to investigate the afterlife of life after he experienced the tragic death of a fellow classmate at the age of 11 years old. Affected by that experience, the scientist stated, "I started to think in science-fiction terms about what could be done."

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In 2007, Turchin was inspired to join the Russian Transhumanist Movement, which seeks to use technology to "transcend their current physical and mental limitations." Since joining the group, Turchin has been "proactively recording" his day-to-day life. A practice titled, "ubiquitous surveillance," Turchin has transcribed or recorded everything from dreams to daily conversations.

However, a research fellow previously stated a huge delay in this discovery, noting the impracticalities of powering the megastructure. Stuart Armstrong previously stated, "The tensile strength needed to prevent the Dyson Sphere from tearing itself apart vastly exceeds that of any known material." Currently, humans are unable to create such a structure, although the blueprint of it still exists. While other scientists doubt the time and effort it would take to implement this, Fordham University physics professor Stephen Holler informed others that the copy might not be what they expect it to be.

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Holler stated, "I don’t think you could subject somebody to the same developmental conditions they had in life, because that presupposes you know all their developmental conditions, from the guy who picked on that person that day when they were very young to what day the person received that award."

He ended with a harrowing fact regarding the current study of immortality, noting, "It’s you up until the point that you download it." He added, "After that, it evolves into a different person. It becomes a new entity. The digital copy will always be divergent from the biological copy."

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Source: Popular Mechanics