OK, I know that"coldsleep" is probably NOT going to work, but I still want to be immortal. Could you store enough of your personality (with the crude methods we have today), so that some cybernetics expert in the 23rd century could reassemble you?Take your memories, mannerisms, facil expressions-if you had enough of this (voice and visual recordings), could your personality be re-created?
Just a thought-but would this be immortality?
Currently – almost certainly not. Not only do we have no way of storing all that data, but we don’t even know enough about how the brain works to go about doing it.
Eventually – well, like with a lot of science fiction tropes, I’m skeptical.
In my opinion, no. To the copy of you that was created it would seem that you are immortal, but to the original you, you probably felt quite mortal as you plummeted to your death or whatever. Also the personality would only continue from the point the recordings were made. If you’d had your last copy made a year ago then there’d be lots of “you” missing.
Who’s to say that you didn’t die in your sleep last night, and the current “you” is actually less than 24 hours old–but with all the memories and personality of the late, lamented 1920s Style “Death Ray” downloaded into your brain-pan? Would that make a difference to you now, or to your predecessor if he had known what was to happen?
However, the memories, and moreover, the subjective experiences, would be the key elements missing in a ‘recreation’ the way the OP envisages it. In other words, you could probably create a rather accurate simulation based on an arbitrarily large sample of data (the simulation becoming closer and closer the larger the dataset), but even if you succeed in creating something outwardly indistinguishable from the original person, its inner experiences will likely be completely different (and probably not even there at all – it’s certainly possible to imagine such a simulation not even possessing consciousness).
Paging Prof. Turing . . .