If data can be pumped into your brain, then your personal sensory data can be pumped out... just like the scenario in the upcoming Channing Powell series, The Feed. However, just because scientists say something is going to happen doesn't mean it is really going to happen.
Transhumans are the prospective inhabitants of the Brave New World of Technocracy, with immortality and omniscience as their core characteristics. While waiting for that, they have turned their focus to 'life extension' instead.
The religion of Transhumanism is pervasive and resilient, judging by the continuous flow of stories every year. The technology to achieve their dream is always just out of reach and just around the corner. Alas, it's been that way for years, and yet they are no closer to immortality than they were 30 years ago.
The quest for immortality is as old as human existence, but has taken on a modern form in Transhumanism that is just as superstitious and silly as the Pharaohs in ancient Egypt. It will just as certainly fail in the end.
Transhumanism is a religious belief system based on the hope that somehow science will provide the holy grail. The fact is, science has not advanced one centimeter toward immortality in all of history.
Since the Transhuman community heated up in the last 30 years, thanks to advancing technology, there has not been one single scientific breakthrough that has moved them one inch closer to achieving immortality. Undeterred, they continue to look for the big 'breakthrough' that will save them from death.
Technocrat scientists believe that humans are just like any other animal which are products of random evolution. Therefore, they fully expect to be able to use science to find the human soul. As atheists, they do not believe man was created by God with body, soul and spirit.
With China completely given over to Technocrat thought, there is no moral or ethical barrier to human cloning, and they have bluntly stated that this is their intent. This will please the transhuman community around the world.
This is further development of President Obama's multibillion-dollar brain-map initiative started in 2013. Just as human DNA was 'mapped', the BRAIN project was to probe the human brain in action and figure out exactly how it works. Driving forces behind this included Transhumanists who seek immortality through science.
Technocrat engineers are obsessed with Transhumanism and conquering immortality, but this 'breakthrough' is little more than a technology parlor trick to imitate life after death. Before technology, we had puppets with strings, and this is no different except that it is much more realistic.