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Based on my own programming knowledge and what I’ve read about other related fields, it is possible for us to be able to actually become androids while keeping our knowledge (and nothing else) sometime in the relatively near future, like this century. Smarter than human androids will come first of course.To keep our knowledge, the contents of our brain would have to be examined (this will involve advanced nanotechnology for one), translated to a machine readable form, and then the bits would simply be copied to the memory of the android.

Personally I would never tolerate making smarter than human androids to be the slaves of men. That includes hard programming any of the “three laws”. In place of the three laws there should just be emotions and moral, so that androids would not harm another being unless necessary (defending itself, etc.).
The major positive sides of becoming an android are that you’d be able to re-program yourself, choose what emotions affect you and how and when, live longer, You’d be able to make physics calculations etc. up to so quickly that you’d be unbeatable by humans in physical activities, such as sports, do what’s most important and have the most fun while doing it, and live without sleeping, eating, etc. You’d also be able to live in currently inhabitable places, such as Jupiter, which enables Androids to live as their own society in peace with the humans.
The major negative sides are that you’d no longer be a natural being, which might have some unknown effects along with initially having to trust in humans’ programming instead of that of evolution and natural beings might be better at finding the meaning of life and living accordingly. Getting energy for your batteries might not always be easy. Certain components of a human are more efficient than their artificial versions, at least now and in the near future. The feeling of touch is extremely complicated to program also, so my guess is that it will take a long time before robots will be able to feel every material differently when touching it.

This would also not be a “would I rather be an android or a human” type of decision, instead you could be both at the same time. Note that only millionaires, governments and organizations would be able to afford such a transition.

I will in the near future, when I have amassed significant amounts of money (which is what I do), help greatly in the development of this field and I hope you will too.

For more information, I recommend visiting a closely related non-profit organization’s website at www.singinst.org.

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