re: That's really quite amazing.
just imagine if the consciousness of people like albert einstein, isaac newton and other great thinkers were made immortal and had the ability to absorb all the collective knowledge of mankind to date. progress, technology, problem solving, standard of living, etc would be so much farther advanced. it would be like having virtually unlimited RAM over the course of hundreds of years and the human brain's speed and so far unmatched creativity. of course the down side would be that rich weirdos would also become immortal and would have to be tolerated or "unplugged"!!!