Can we indefinitely extend the human conscience & life by transferring it to another life form?

Trees are known to live for thousands of years.


Turtles can live over 200.





Should scientists find a way to "record" who we are, as I think it is all in the mind (where else would me be stored?), do you feel that we could download or transfer it to another living thing %26amp; keep "me" or, that is to say, who I am, alive indefinitely by giving my "conscience" another living body?





Do you feel that recording "me" will enable it to stay alive, say, if it is recorded on an electronic device such as a computer?





If they have an exact mind map of me on a computer, why couldn't I still live (on the pc) %26amp; be me?





Your thoughts on this are highly valued, as I would really love to know answers to this problem.





Should we work together to solve it, it could be sciences biggest breakthrough as we learn how to achieve eternal well being.





Perhaps even, scrapping the living tissues that break down with disease %26amp; decay as we learn to preserve only the "conscience".|||three scenarios.





1. Mind and body are the same thing with mind being the exact state of every atom in your brain. Given that the typical adult human brain contains in the order of 200 billion neurons and each neuron contains 23 pairs of chromosomes and each chromosome contains 2 stands of DNA and each DNA contains approximately 3 million nucleotides which may contain say 6 Hydrogens, 6 carbons, 5 nitrogens and an oxygen atom, then each brain would contain approximately 1 x 10^20 atoms each of hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the DNA material alone. Not to mention the rest of the cell material. Given that the quantum state of 2 hydrogen atoms can be acurately predicted but more that and certainly the rest of the atoms is impossible, I would go out on a limb here and say it is impossible to digitally record your mind.





2. your mind resides in your soul and that soul is independent of your body. sure. figure out a way to transfer a soul.





3. your soul and brain combine to form you. transfering your soul to another body would create something new.





So, don't count on it happening...