Wellness and technology, the quantified self movement

This is reminiscent of a paper written by Sim Bamford (CTUK's founder) that I showed you last year Velocio about http://www.sim.me.uk/neural/JournalArticles/Bamford2012IJMC.pdf

One technique involves plugging into some tech that learns how you think and respond to the world and over a period of time the tech would have the same memories as you eventually your mind/soul will exist in you and the substrate so you continue after you die

Have a read of a short story by Greg Egan called The Jewel..... it talks of having a neural implant at birth that then learns the behavior of the person / stores memories etc, so at adulthood, the "jewel" takes over the running of the body and the brain is discarded, eliminating any possibility of degenerative illness and cognitive decline.