# Hans Moravec **Domain:** Robotics / Mind Uploading / Post-Biological Thought **Hans Moravec** is a roboticist and futurist whose work helped establish the modern language of machine descendants, computational identity and post-biological succession. In _Mind Children_ and _Robot_, he argued that human cultural and cognitive lineage could continue through increasingly capable machines and explored a gradual replacement thought experiment often called “transmigration.” Moravec belongs in the [[wiki/Pantheon|Pantheon]] lineage because the series turns computational succession into family, infrastructure and law. His work supplies an intellectual predecessor to [[wiki/Uploaded Intelligence|Uploaded Intelligence]] while also exposing the unresolved identity question: functional continuity and successful replacement do not by themselves prove first-person survival. The corpus should read Moravec beside [[wiki/Continuity Evidence vs Continuity|Continuity Evidence vs Continuity]], [[wiki/Post-Humanism|Post-Humanism]] and [[wiki/Synthetic Descent|Synthetic Descent]]. His “mind children” framing is especially useful where descendants may carry human projects without being copies of particular people. External reference: [Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute profile](https://www.ri.cmu.edu/ri-faculty/hans-moravec/).