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Doug TenNapel (blue check implied) @DougTenNapel - I've got bad news for Transhumanists, it's impossible. Rooted in a Materialist world view, it assumes there is no immaterial soul, that our consciousness can exist purely in the materials.
You will never capture a human soul and put it in a machine, because a human soul is in some way bound to a brain organ and once disconnected, the soul moves on. Ghostbusters had a ghost-trap, a physical device that could capture the immaterial and contain it but that was fiction. It's like the flux capacitor, once you accept that work of fiction, time travel is possible!
Cartesian Substance Dualism put the materials and supernature in two different buckets. It's where we get the phrase "Ghost in the Shell". Descartes claim what there is no intrinsic connection between the soul and the body, but the mind and body had some kind of causal relationship (he thought it could be through the pineal gland). The idea even launched the framework seen in manga of "pilots" driving bodies.
It ends up firmly in the gnostic camp where souls are good and eternal while bodies are material and lower or fallen. You'll smell a whiff of this in Peter Thiel's clip below of wanting to transcend nature. As if God's world is fallen in a way that completely disconnects it from His perfect mind. But we learn in Genesis that it was created good, by Him, and materials fell right along with Adam. Christ isn't just the redeemer of men, but the redeemer of the entire universe. All matter is also put under his footstool.
Cut To: Thomistic Substance Dualism, where St. Thomas Aquinas sought to find common ground between Aristotle and the Bible. He claimed the human person is a SINGLE substance composed of two principles, the soul as a form and the body as prime matter. Metaphysically, a "human being" is a united thing, not a core soul with an optional body. Argued in the Bible with us getting new bodies, why get a body if the soul is the real form and body is just a shell?
Transhumanism assumes you can put our severed head on ice, or put a brain in a vat and it would remain "us". Even more ridiculous would be to remove the soul from the brain organ and upload it into a computer (see the movie: Chappie). Similar works of Materialist fiction on teleporting would be Star Trek, to The Fly, Being John Malkevich and The Prestige, where a body can be removed from a consciousness.
Unlike Cartesian dualism, the soul and body are not independent substances but are incomplete without each other. In J.P Moreland's book Body and Soul, he even implies our physical DNA could only kick into gear because a soul was already present. The materialist claims the physical creates the illusion of a supernatural soul, but it is far more likely that the soul is what engineers the physical. This mimics the creation account where God a being speaks matter into existence. You can't get a soul from matter, but you might be able to get matter from a soul, if anything.
You'll find this mistake of Materialist bias in most of the big tech thinkers, from Thiel to Elon Musk, who believes Earth needs a back up of Mars, because he assumes the life can continue on Mars if Earth were destroyed.
"If a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his ass a hoppin'" - Raising Arizona
If Mars was anthropomorphic, man would have been created there, not on Earth. Mars might be a great place to visit, but will probably be a better place where we can exploit mining for rare minerals.
"It's a nice place to visit, but a better place to rob." - Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique
Entire missions to Mars will spend millions, justified by a Materialist falsehood. Likewise with Transhumanism, you will never build that Ghostbusters contraption that uses a physical object to capture and house the human soul, for matter is likely downstream from the immaterial.