Memory transfer chip 

 

We don't want to go down this road.

 

More suitable and semi-organic mediums of transference are 100% safe without grey area.

 Naturally evolving civilization will go this route first, we've already learned from their mistakes here. Memory transfer is a little different than consciousness transfer by chip, nonetheless, just think of the possibilities, knowing what we do know.

 

Sometimes civilization may end up in worse situation. 

When planets give up on the starkingly hard task of finding a qualified person, and informing them, and then hoping they can save the world, the become 'open' and the time stampper gets deleted.

We don't know what is out there.

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We don't really need to 

Most likely - you will be spending all your time here anyway should you die organically. Likely with a few more seeds in the dimension we live.

 

Moreso than a memory chip, a legacy of a building structure and proven direction. Is more desirable for humanity at this phase.

 

I assure you, out there any field of study has applications. Besides your son will almost have certainly different interests than you, it's better to hand to a protegeé.