HOSTS JESSE PENNER AND ANDREW DYCK

Here’s a question for the sci-fi crowd – no doubt you’ve run into stories of a human consciousness that gets uploaded into an avatar, digital body, computer or the cloud and the physical fleshly body ceases to function or to exist. Sci-fi messes with mind, soul and body all the time. This question asker finds that extremely creepy—how do you find it? Why might that be such a common trope? How does that inform some of this discussion about spirit and body?

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