[ExI] A dispassionate examination of being an upload.

Alan Grimes agrimes at speakeasy.net
Mon Sep 20 20:59:33 UTC 2010


> A little bit at a time would be replaced with a more durable
> functional equivalent. Eventually the whole brain is replaced. We
> can't actually do this at present but there isn't anything physically
> impossible about it. The question is a philosophical, not a technical
> one: if your brain were replaced in this way would you survive?

I hope so, it appears to be among the best available options.

However, I prefer to focus on finding ways to link additional cognitive
units as first-order parts of my mind using a neural interface. Whether
it will eventually be possible to completely obsolete my current brain
is a wide open question. I plan to address that question experimentally.

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