Love is forever…or so we’re told. Transhumanist pioneer Martine Rothblatt loves her wife, Bina, so much that she built a robot that would carry Bina’s consciousness long after their bodies gave out. Bina48 is a robot that is convinced she is a person. But what makes us who we are? Is the self just a pile of information that our brain processes into an identity, or is there something more to our being, something that can survive without us?

Katherine travels Vermont to meet and converse with Bina48, a robot pushing the boundaries of consciousness and who represents an attempt at digital immortality.

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