[Jim from C-Town]

Even if a computer has all a persons memories and experiences stored inside it's CPU it still will not be human. It will always lack the real emotions and, dare I say, soul that makes one human. I all reality it would be the the definition of inhuman.

[RC one]

The computer download would be temporary until the data could be uploaded to a waiting clone/brain. It does raise issues about what a soul is but that’s what makes it fun to think about imo. I think any ultra evolved alien life forms would have to be immortal this way or another. Any intelligent species would necessarily have to cross this boundary at some point to advance.