Mind uploading in fiction
Mind uploading—transferring an individual's personality to a computer—appears in several works of fiction.[1] It is distinct from the concept of transferring a consciousness from one human body to another.[2][3] It is sometimes applied to a single person and other times to an entire society.[4] Recurring themes in these stories include whether the computerized mind is truly conscious, and if so, whether identity is preserved.[5] It is a common feature of the cyberpunk subgenre,[6] sometimes taking the form of digital immortality.[3][7]
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References
- ^ Langford, David; Stableford, Brian (2022). "Upload". In Clute, John; Langford, David; Sleight, Graham (eds.). The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (4th ed.). Retrieved 2024-03-29.
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. Cyberpunk writers and their successors have also frequently imagined the uploading of human minds into computers, thus creating a special sort of artificial intelligence that can free individuals of the limitations of biological bodies, a notion that would be notably extended in the work of Greg Egan.
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Further reading
- Geraci, Robert M. (2010). "Science Fiction Sacred". Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality. Oxford University Press. pp. 54–56. ISBN 978-0-19-974133-5.
- Lorrimar, Victoria (2022). "Imagining Prospective Technologies". Human Technological Enhancement and Theological Anthropology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37–38. ISBN 978-1-316-51502-0.
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