Until Death Do Us Part and They Upload Us Into Clones: An Analysis of Film Narratives About Mind Uploading and the Myth of Immortality

The fear of death and the myth immortality are themes long present in various narratives, whether literary or visual. Science fiction as a genre offers us many venues for new explorations this idea. Mind uploading is one them. This fictional technique, related to cloning, performed when mind consciousness person transferred another biological body machine with help technology. In way, continues their social life through brain functions. paper looks at four separate recent screen narratives – movies Self/less, Transcendence, Replicas, episode “Be Right Back” TV show Black Mirror. With Tzvetan Todorov’s structural analysis, we find clauses that all plots see what ideas topics they share. also uses idea anthropological reading science therefore scientific research analyze these themes. By looking findings immortality, mortality, modern society, digital techniques, how analyzed portray unique mixture longing mentioned processes ideas. Finally, shows could possibly reflect reality both presenting thoughts society inspiring future technological advances (in case, quest immortality). While humans still far from achieving eternal life, growing stream deal age internet media.