NEW YORK – It might sound like something out of a sci-fi flick, but Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk didn’t flinch when asked whether Tesla’s humanoid robot, Optimus, could one day house a human mind.

At last week’s Tesla shareholder meeting, a question from the audience went straight for the philosophical jugular: “Do you see a path for Optimus to have human consciousness downloaded to it?”

Musk didn’t brush it off, Yahoo Tech reported.

It’s not immediate,” he said, before laying out the possibility. “But if you say, down the road, would you be able to, say, with a Neuralink , have a snapshot of what is an approximate snapshot of somebody’s mind and then upload that approximate snapshot to an Optimus body? I think that at some point, that technology becomes possible, and it’s p

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