mind uploading
Brain to computer
Mind uploading is the hypothetical transfer of a person's consciousness, memories, and mental patterns from their biological brain to a computer or artificial substrate.
The concept appears in science fiction and futurist speculation about achieving digital immortality or escaping bodily death.
Whether such a transfer would preserve personal identity—or create a copy while the original dies—remains a central philosophical question: Even if mind uploading worked, would the upload really be you?
- consciousnessState of sentient awareness
- digitalOf discrete data
- digital twinSimulated replica of physical object
- brainSeat of cognition
- simulationImitation of real processes
immortality · substrate · transfer · copy · neural · neural network · scan · emulation · cyberspace · singularity · science fiction · black mirror · transhumanism · ghost · soul · avatar · backup · download
- immortalityimmortality, eternal life, immortals, everlasting life, deathlessness
- sci-fi techteleporter, time travel, cryonics, force fields, time machine
- AI conceptsneural network, artificial general intelligence, neural net, superintelligence, CNN
- techno-utopianismsingularity, transhumanism, post-scarcity, technocracy, accelerationism
- metaphysical conceptssoul, spirit, free will, determinism, afterlife
- sci-fi themesdystopian fiction, utopian fiction, time travel, alternate history, dystopia
mind uploadingembodiment
Concrete manifestation of idea
flesh and blood · carbon-based life · incarnation · wetware · meatspace
mind uploadingnatural death
Death from internal causes
death acceptance · mortality · memento mori · letting go · death with dignity
mind, minds, minded, minding, mindful, mindfully, mindfulness, mindless, mindlessly