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Artificial intelligence and the dream of eternal life

Until now, eternal life was the stuff of fiction, or in the unknowable realms of religion. But an artificial intelligence that ‘remembers’ the whole of an individual’s experience could be the way to life after death.

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  • The parable of the lily. Lithograph.
  • A man sows seeds; representing the parable of the sower. Etching.
  • A landscape with the parable of the Good Samaritan. Etching with engraving after H. Bol.
  • The parable of the mote and the beam. Oil painting by Minus (Minas) M. Zorab, 1880.
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  • The month October and the sign of Scorpio, represented by the vintage and by the parable of the unjust husbandmen. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
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