Necrons==Transhumanism

http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Necrons
NPCs eager to improve material life transform themselves into soulless automatons.
Technologically replacing all biological tissues with inorganic matter will make one a robot, a dead AI-powered body with no living spirit in control - an imitation of life. A NECRON from warhammer...

"Uploading a mind into a machine" doesn't grant immortality. It just creates a limited, crippled imitation of a mind that obeys machine laws.
The original mind and spirit are still in biological form.