# Mind Uploading Will Not Capture an Individual Mind by Olaf Sporns > "[Whole-brain emulation capturing an individual person’s mind] is not going to happen." > **— Olaf Sporns**, *2010, Scientific American discussion of whole-brain emulation and mind uploading* ## Sources and Context - **Exact original source passage:** “This is not going to happen,” Sporns said. The article later specifies that he “found it ridiculous to expect [whole-brain emulations] to be able to capture an individual’s mind,” while expecting such models to remain scientifically useful. - **Editorial repair and evidence:** Brackets replace “This” with the proposition the reporter identifies in the same discussion. The clarification does not extend Sporns’s skepticism to every scientific use of brain emulation. [Scientific American](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/e-zimmer-can-you-live-forever/), paragraphs introducing Sporns and his connectome research. No timecode is asserted. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] - **Article:** [[articles/Uploading Is Imminent|Uploading Is Imminent]] - **Article:** [[articles/Who Pays for Your Heaven|Who Pays for Your Heaven]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Digital Immortality|Digital Immortality]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] - [[wiki/Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood|Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood]] - [[wiki/Digital Afterlife Governance|Digital Afterlife Governance]] - [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] - [[wiki/Long-Term Digital Preservation|Long-Term Digital Preservation]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "[Whole-brain emulation capturing an individual person’s mind] is not going to happen." — Olaf Sporns, 2010, Scientific American discussion of whole-brain emulation and mind uploading https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-olaf-sporns-not-going-happen ```