Mind Upload - Bryant McGill

# Mind Upload ## Definition **Mind Upload** is the proposed transfer, emulation or reconstruction of a person's cognitive organization in a nonbiological substrate. It raises separate questions about technical fidelity, consciousness, personal identity, continuity and whether a transmitted pattern is the original subject or a successor copy. ## Conceptual relationships [[wiki/Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] · [[wiki/Identity|Identity]] · [[wiki/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] ## Martin Rees research route [[research/Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future|Martin Rees on Machine Succession, Post-Human Intelligence, and the Cosmic Future]] supplies a primary quotation dossier connecting this concept to Rees's work on cosmology, technological risk, machine intelligence, posthuman evolution and deep time. ## Article and collection routes - [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - [[articles/We Cannot Un-Strike the Match|We Cannot Un-Strike the Match]] - [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts  > “Eventually we can send human consciousness, downloaded from individuals or created by artificial intelligence, to nanoexplorers.” > **— Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith**, *Do We Really Need to Send Humans into Space?, Scientific American, 2020* [[reminders/Mind Upload/Human Consciousness Could Travel in Nanoexplorers by Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith|Human Consciousness Could Travel in Nanoexplorers by Martin Rees and Donald Goldsmith]]