The following is an answer and/or comment by inhahe aka ColorStorm (inhahe.com - myriachromat.wordpress.com).
Tyler asked about 1 hour ago
Ray Kurzweil believes death can be "cured", he says humans will be able to transfer their consciousness to robots by 2045. What do you think of that, is it realizable or reverie?

The idea that consciousness can be algorithmic is absurd. It's one of the silliest follies in common thought, as far as I'm concerned. No matter what code those transistors are processing, they're still doing essentially the same thing as if they're running PAC-MAN. Any further considerations are more nuanced, abstract, incidental, or secondary. Life/awareness/consciousness/experience is a real, singular thing; it can't be mechanical, algorithmic, or an abstraction or "emergent property" of anything.

The idea that consciousness can be "run" on a computer is born of the silly scientism/materialism/technologism of modern times.

I can see how it's clearly illogical to think that consciousness could be an algorithm in my mind, but I've yet to be able to delve into that sense well enough to prove it in words. People who think consciousness can be computational just lack my capacity for deeper reasoning. =P