# Uploading as Suicide by Susan Schneider > "You wouldn’t be conscious, and it wouldn’t be you. Uploading would not be a route to digital immortality but suicide." > **— Susan Schneider**, *2016, Nautilus interview on mind uploading* ## Sources and Context - **Full quotation and context:** [Would You Have Any Cosmetic Neurology Done? - Nautilus](https://nautil.us/would-you-have-any-cosmetic-neurology-done-235994/) — contains the quoted wording and identifies its publication, interview, testimony, or event context. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Neurotech|Neurotech]] - **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/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Escape Hatch in the Skull]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Susan Schneider|Susan Schneider]] - [[wiki/Mind Uploading|Mind Uploading]] - [[wiki/Whole Brain Emulation|Whole Brain Emulation]] - [[wiki/Digital Afterlife|Digital Afterlife]] - [[wiki/Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood|Digital Afterlife Rights and Personhood]] - [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "You wouldn’t be conscious, and it wouldn’t be you. Uploading would not be a route to digital immortality but suicide." — Susan Schneider, 2016, Nautilus interview on mind uploading https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-susan-schneider-uploading-suicide ```