The body is mortal, human consciousness is eternal, until maybe the universe get's a the big crunch event and shrinks down into nothing again smaller than an atom. (That we haven't even seen)
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The body is mortal, human consciousness is eternal, until maybe the universe get's a the big crunch event and shrinks down into nothing again smaller than an atom. (That we haven't even seen)
I don't know any way of confirming whether HUMAN consciousness (specifically) is eternal or not, but I get the sense (for no particular logical reason, it seems) that CONSCIOUSNESS along some spectrum of awareness, intelligence and "knowingness" is always present in some form for at least as long as there is a universe of distinct materials. In other words, I'm convinced that consciousness is as much a law of matter as are any other laws that we've uncovered such as gravity or the laws of thermodynamics, etc.
If we're to assume that what I believe about consciousness is true, it would logically follow that the purpose of our existence (as bodies of some species, housing differing levels of consciousness) is to evolve to the point of knowing all there is to know about the whole of consciousness (or the combined potential knowledge of the collective "conscious matter" that is dispersed throughout the universe). And, if this is true then it would make sense to use everything in our power to devise solutions like Advanced Super-Intelligent programs to help us make a leap in that general direction (to understand all there is to know about the universe and consciousness).
And, if what the linked article of OP is correct about what an Artificial Super-Intelligence (ASI) could reasonably achieve, then such an AI might be the "bridge" to bringing all that collective knowledge together into one distinctive "super-mind", as such a super-intelligent entity could conceivably devise a way to squeeze every bit of information out of every atom of matter in existence, or to slice into just enough matter to uncover that level of detail (it may only take analyzing a single atom to derive all information if consciousness is holographic in nature).