I should note, I'm with John Searle. I don't believe that 'brain upload' is possible or that machines can ever be conscious. Certainly not without a godly understanding of consciousness and the soul. So if this dark future does come to pass, it will be the greatest cosmic joke: the non-sentient ghosts of 'elites' will wander the universe for eternity, convincingly mimicking psychopathic satanist pedophiles to outside observers, but they will be non-living husks, marionnettes dancing to the tune of dead men.