Okay, well standard disclaimer that I'm not a robotics expert/neuroscientist/etc. so if I say anything dumb please let me know, because I always want to learn more:

Basically the human body as is, including the brain, is already a machine. An organic one, but a machine nonetheless. Consciousness is the result of various electrochemical processes within the brain (from what I understand). Therefore if it can be done in an organic machine it can theoretically be duplicated in an inorganic one. Not yet, because we're still figuring it all out, but eventually.

So!

I want to be a robot because it will hopefully allow me to do things like live longer and learn more and see more sights and such, and also because I think robots are sexy. :raichu:

Now if we have a lot of people becoming robots and living longer, we'll need a lot more elbow room than we've got here on earth, so we'll just have to go into outer space~

(SPOILER)this is my fetish

(SPOILER)Actually if we all just decided to forgo physical bodies and live inside a giant computer or something we probably won't need too much elbow room, but I want to go into space anyway.