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Mind Uploading

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Mind uploading is a theoretical process of transferring a person's consciousness, memories, and cognitive functions from a biological brain to a digital medium or computer system, enabling the potential for digital immortality and the exploration of consciousness in a non-biological substrate.
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Mind uploading is a theoretical process of transferring a person's consciousness, memories, and cognitive functions from a biological brain to a digital medium or computer system, enabling the potential for digital immortality and the exploration of consciousness in a non-biological substrate.

Key research themes

1. How can mind uploading preserve personal identity given the challenges of continuity, consciousness, and identity criteria?

This research theme investigates the philosophical and technological challenges that mind uploading poses to personal identity continuity. Central questions include whether uploaded minds can be considered the same persons as their biological originals, how consciousness is maintained or altered through uploading, and which methods (instantaneous, gradual, or slow continuous) best preserve identity. The theme is vital because mind uploading’s promise of immortality fundamentally depends on preserving who ‘we’ are throughout the uploading process.

Key finding: Proposes slow continuous mind uploading (SCU) as an alternative to instantaneous destructive uploading, suggesting that gradual incorporation of digital extensions into cognitive processes via 'smart' internet technologies... Read more
Key finding: Demonstrates rigorously that a free, self-determined mind cannot be represented as a finite sequence of bits executable on a digital computer, thus rendering mind uploading technically impossible for free minds. This... Read more
Key finding: Develops the Quantum-Temporal Consciousness Model (QTCM) which posits consciousness as an irreducibly singular, temporally embedded, and quantum-coherent phenomenon that cannot be copied, duplicated, or transferred. This... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes mind uploading through psychological and patternist theories of mind, emphasizing the distinction between perfect replication and genuine survival. Highlights skepticism that uploading constitutes survival of the... Read more
Key finding: Argues that achieving mind uploading as genuine immortality is technologically very remote and conceptually problematic, with unresolved issues such as personal identity preservation. Situates mind uploading debates within... Read more

2. What are the psychological and ethical factors influencing acceptance and perception of mind uploading technologies?

This theme explores the human psychological traits and ethical considerations that shape attitudes toward mind uploading and the broader implications of digital immortality. It focuses on predictors of approval or rejection of mind upload technologies—including personality traits like Machiavellianism, moral perception, and cultural narratives—and the societal, moral, and interpersonal consequences of envisioning digital selves. Understanding these factors is crucial for developing responsible policy and design around mind uploading.

Key finding: Finds that individuals high in Machiavellianism—a Dark Triad trait marked by manipulativeness and self-interest—have more favorable attitudes toward mind upload technology, while psychopathy does not predict approval. This... Read more
Key finding: Demonstrates experimentally that how human interactants perceive the agency (cognitive capacity) and patiency (emotional capacity) of virtual agents critically affects negotiation behaviors. High perceived agency leads to... Read more
Key finding: Argues through literary analysis that moral perception is a central challenge in creating AI capable of mind uploading, as machines lack the ability to apprehend the non-objective ethical qualities inherent to human... Read more
Key finding: In addition to ontological arguments, emphasizes ethical implications of attempted mind uploading and cloning, concluding that consciousness is non-transferable and that attempts to replicate it digitally risk creating... Read more
Key finding: Introduces 'sideloading,' a practical method for creating detailed digital models of persons using large language models guided by iterative feedback, representing a current, cost-effective form of digital immortality.... Read more

3. What technological advantages and limitations do artificial digital minds (uploads, AGI) have compared to humans?

This theme focuses on the computational, structural, and cooperative advantages that digital minds, such as uploads or derived AGI, may possess over biological humans, as well as the inherent limitations in replicating consciousness and cognition. Research delves into hardware speed, self-improvement, copying and communication abilities, and the impact of biological biases on human cognition, informing predictions about the future influence and risks of digital minds relative to human agents.

Key finding: Systematically categorizes advantages of digital minds including: hardware speed (serial and parallel processing far beyond biological brains), self-improvement capabilities (algorithm optimization, motivational redesign),... Read more
Key finding: Applies the Phantom or Primal Eye paradigm to conceptualize posthuman cognition and awareness, proposing analog circuit designs that replicate certain awareness-generating brain state transitions. This models foundational... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes the growing cultural-religious framing of AI and digital minds as transcendent, godlike entities, exploring how imagined digital omnipotence converts technological development into a cosmic narrative. This viewpoint... Read more
Key finding: Explores narrative depictions of digital immortality’s desirability, revealing that despite technological prowess, endless simulated consciousness risks boredom and loss of meaningful identity, suggesting inherent... Read more
Key finding: Provides a comprehensive overview of emerging socio-political and ethical domains triggered by AI and digital mind developments, including autonomous weapons, social bots, and digital ethics, highlighting the broader societal... Read more

All papers in Mind Uploading

From a behaviorist perspective, the desire to upload “minds” is already being realized on a mass, hyper-industrial scale thanks to the convergence of cognitive computing and Big Data. The accusation is that the “mind” is not an entity... more
Intelligence Unbound explores the prospects, promises, and potential dangers of machine intelligence and uploaded minds in a collection of state-of-the-art essays from internationally recognized philosophers, AI researchers, science... more
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Mind uploading speculation and debate often concludes that a procedure described as gradual in-place replacement preserves personal identity while a procedure described as destructive scan-and-copy produces some other identity in the... more
Most contemporary scholarly work on posthumanism and transhumanism rests on the idea that both perspectives are part of an ontological continuum. This article, however, acknowledges and explores the differences between them. In order to... more
Advocates of transhumanism envision a future in which we achieve immortality by “mind-uploading” our consciousness and identity onto digital substrates. Utilizing functionalist (and sometimes dualistic) accounts of the mind, the roadmap... more
This paper highlights the concept of “mind-uploading” and what defines this hypothetical idea. The process of uploading one’s consciousness in a synthetic level is indicated as well as the effects it can have in a social, scientific, and... more
Explores the possibility of a naturalist afterlife via mind-uploading and simulationism. Argues that the main problem is that we don't understand if and how selfhood is connected to the computational processes of the brain. Now... more
Humans have long wondered whether they can survive the death of their physical bodies. Some people, including some prominent billionaires and tech entrepreneurs, now look to technology as a means by which this might occur, using terms... more
A discussion of a most devastating calamity potentially befalling on humanity in the near future has been presented that is referred to as the transhumanism movement, which also involves alien hybridization. It is explicated that despite... more
The ‘Mind-Upload’ hypothesis (MU), a radical version of the Brain- in-a-Vat thought experiment, asserts that a whole mind can safely be transferred from a brain to a digital device, after being exactly encoded into substrate independent... more
What if one could build a virtual world with effective open borders, in a consensual and cooperative way? The Virternity project proposes a benign and positive outlook to the future of humanity’s adventure into the virtual realm and the... more
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The progressing cyborgization of the human body reaches its completion point when the entire body can be replaced by uploading individual minds to a less vulnerable and limited substrate, thus achieving \digital immortality" for the... more
Many researchers have argued that humanity will create artificial general intelligence (AGI) within the next twenty to one hundred years. It has been suggested that AGI may pose a catastrophic risk to humanity. After summarizing the... more
Background: While modern humans seek ways to extend life expectancy, the necessity of advanced bioengineering tools for the production of effective human enhancement applications appears as compelling as ever. Objective: The technological... more
Disclaimer: DIN provides consulting in the sphere of digital immortality. You can use this theory and protocol for free. DIN may help by providing advice to implement the protocol, but do not take any legal responsibility for your actions... more
The combination of superintelligence and massive computational power will make it possible for computers in the future to create and sustain virtual environments of a size and complexity that is way beyond anything we are currently... more
The article seeks to analyze the apocalyptic and eschatological dimensions of mind uploading that is, transferring of mind and consciousness from a biological to a computational substrate as described in Neal Stephenson's novel Fall; or,... more
Transhumanism is a philosophical system that proposes the use of advanced technologies directly in the human body to modify and improve its biological condition. That is the core idea of transhumanism and it can be adopted by various... more
If we uploaded our minds into cyberspace, would we be immortal?! "Upload" our Sapiens' minds into… something?! Mind is noumenon, mind is a nature, a quid, an essence, a character. "Upload" our characters into… something?!... more
The idea of mind-uploading shows that, in the philosophical sense, we are still deeply embedded in Cartesian dualisms and Newtonian mechanical ways of thinking. Moreover, this idea tends to neglect the complexities of our material... more
Observations by Lucretius and Seneca suggest that "life after death" is the necessary mode of all life. Since it is possible to pop into existence from death (non-existence) once, the question naturally arises: Can one pop into existence... more
Sheila Jasanoff and other STS researchers refer to a "sociotechnical imaginary" as "collectively held and performed visions of desirable futures…animated by shared understandings of forms of social life and social order attainable... more
Background: While modern humans seek ways to extend life expectancy, the necessity of advanced bioengineering tools for the production of effective human enhancement applications appears as compelling as ever. Objective: The technological... more
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El materialismo de la Edad Moderna nos describe al hombre como una máquina, comparable a un complejo artilugio mecánico. Cabe entonces imaginar que una máquina no-biológica pueda constituir un ser pensante como lo son los seres humanos, e... more
Asla, M. 2018. "Yo, mi cerebro y mi otro yo (digital): muerte e inmortalidad humanas en el horizonte de la transferencia mental", Investigación y Ciencia: Edición Española de Scientific American. Número monográfico, Humanos: por qué somos... more
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The idea of mind uploading shows that in the philosophical sense, we are still deeply embedded in Cartesian dualisms and Newtonian mechanical ways of thinking. Moreover, this idea neglects our material existence, i.e. our embodied... more
Una de las controversias generadas con la hipótesis de la transferencia mental gira en torno a la relación autocomprensión-identidad. Si un sujeto puede reducirse a patrones de información, y la tecnología es capaz de preservar y... more
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I wish I were a machine. I don't want to be hurt. I don't want human emotions. I've never been touched by a painting. I don't want to think. The world would be easier to live in if we were all machines.
ABSTRACT: In general, what was normal behavior then, is not accepted now. What is accepted now, will not be accepted in the future. The main idea is that what we do online and offline, will be recorded: online will be recorded in the... more
I survey four categories of factors that might give a digital mind, such as an upload or an arti cial general intelligence, an advantage over humans. Hardware advantages include greater serial speeds and greater parallel speeds.... more
Mind uploading speculation and debate often concludes that a procedure described as gradual in-place replacement preserves personal identity while a procedure described as destructive scan-and-copy produces some other identity in the... more
Trans-humanism is a current of thinking that propagates the creation of technologies which serve to overcome human biological limitations. However, trans-humanists want to create not only technologies that make it possible to improve the... more
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