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> This means that we're soon able to replace our bodies with robotic ones.

"We have a computer that can play chess, which means we'll soon be able to replace humans by AIs" - someone in 1970

> You could probably keep the brain alive indefinitely.

> It's probably not too difficult

Why do 1/3rd to half of people above 85 have Alzheimer's/Parkinson's/Dementia then ?

Software developers have very simplistic and optimistic views about these things, we're very far away from anything remotely close to have you're talking about. The human body is infinitely more complex than what your comment hints



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