# You Wouldn’t Be Conscious 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?](https://nautil.us/would-you-have-any-cosmetic-neurology-done-235994/) — The interview supplies the complete quotation and identifies destructive mind uploading as the referent. ## 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/Escape Hatch in the Skull|Escape Hatch in the Skull]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Identity|Identity]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Susan Schneider|Susan Schneider]] - [[wiki/Consciousness|Consciousness]] - [[wiki/Consciousness Indicators|Consciousness Indicators]] - [[wiki/Personal Identity|Personal Identity]] - [[wiki/Psychological Continuity|Psychological Continuity]] - [[wiki/Durable Identity|Durable Identity]] ## 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-wouldnt-conscious ```