The Human Ark, Leaving our bodies or our Humanity?

Recently I have dived head first into a survival horror game called SOMA. In it you play Simon, who started off as an individual who received some sort of brain damage, when going for what he thinks is a scan he gets uploaded into an ark. Long story short the earth is wrecked, an AI is trying to preserve what’s left and you are attempting to get on the Ark and shoot it into space where it will have energy for a much longer time than it would at the bottom of the sea. Now it is amazing as far as the suspenseful horror game it is, you cannot fight and everything can kill you, but the game proceeds with your character having to make certain choices and they all revolve around what is moral and what is human.

Simon does not stay in his body, his consciousness is copied to a mechanical body located closer to the Ark. At the beginning it does not stand out to much but the whole idea is that it is not your mind moving from place to place and you continuing your journey, it is your copied where one of your selves continues on and the other more likely perishes. This is where the fun begins, with cyborgs, robots, and multiple copies of the same people. It starts asking the question who has rights? What is human? What is right?

The game goes on letting you hear two sides to the question of what is human. Simon who believes that a biological body is needed to be human, that anything that is not the original is not human. The argument is that it is an artificial body and against nature. Catherine your companion who exist on a sort of plug in tablet argues that they are still human only altered. They think, they feel, they know they exist and can rationalize on their own. At what point do we lose our humanity? It is a question that is answered by your own line of morality and a worldwide line cannot be decided which is why it is based on what you believe and every person is entitled to their own. This game disregards that and shows the clashes between different beliefs and shows how much controversy can occur. For instance you may believe it is better to die as a biological being then being uploaded into an Ark but an AI that has gained a biological body may think otherwise.

While it is nice hearing fictional characters bicker about what is fucked up and what is right after a while I was not sure myself on what was the correct path to take. If given the choice would you upload yourself? Give up your biological body for immortality or something close to that? This is the second stage of this issue, once you leave your biological body if we are still human would we lose it if we were exposed to immortality? Would you still have rights, or be a slave to your original self? We may be able to decide these for ourselves but what happens when it becomes possible? How will we put basic principles on uploading our consciousness when it has to be decided?