I’m a researcher / investor seeking startups interested in precisely THAT.
It’s obvious this needs to be done. And thus it’s obvious this is going to be done, by us - sooner or later.
Same as it’s obvious that advanced spices would travel by sending their DNA (if such a lame analog data store still needed) and state of consciousness to remote distant replication farms (as information) rather than dispatching their whole bodies each time they want to travel.
This needs to be done so it’s obvious that’s already surely being done (just not by us).