
	Where results make sense

Topic: Mind uploading

Related Topics

Aquatic ape hypothesis

Queer culture

Kajkavian dialect

Bites

Skinny Puppy

Hobart Bay, Alaska

Macedon (town), New York

Olav Haraldsson

Cleanse Fold and Manipulate

Jennie Kidd Trout

Binary large object

Pike County, Alabama

In the News (Fri 18 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Mind transfer
		True mind uploading remains speculation; the technology to perform such a feat is not currently available, nor is it expected to be for a long time to come.
		Uploading consciousness into bodies created by robotic means is a goal of some in the artificial intelligence community.
		In the uploading scenario, the physical human brain[?] does not move from its original body into a new robotic shell; rather, the consciousness is assumed to be recorded and/or transferred to a new robotic brain, which generates responses indistinguishable from the original organic brain.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/mi/Mind_transfer.html (857 words)

	mind transfer
		Mind transfer or uploading is a common theme in science fiction.
		In his "jewelhead" stories, the mind is copied from the organic brain to a small, indestructible computer at the base of the skull before the organic brain is surgically removed.
		The concept of mind transfer is similar to that of teleportation in that it raises profound philosophical questions about the nature of human identity, individuality, and the soul.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/mind_transfer.html (374 words)

	The Prospect of Mind Uploading
		Mind uploading is a hypothetical and actively pursued technology whose purpose is to achieve the transferral of a human individual identity into an artificial system via whole brain emulation.
		Whole Brain Emulation (WBE) (or mind uploading) is a technological objective that has been used as a motif in science fiction for a considerable amount time, [2] but was not mentioned in a widely read work of nonfiction until 1988 by Hans Moravec in Mind Children [3].
		In order to reproduce a person's mind such that their identity and self awareness remain unchanged, Whole Brain Emulation requires (a) that the mind is an emergent property of the human organism; (b) that the mind is localized to the brain; and (c) that both personal identity and self awareness are properties of mind [6].
	minduploading.org /articles/hearn.mind-uploading.html (3107 words)

	Gradual Uploading as a Cognition of Mind
		We use children mind evolution model for the description of uploading system evolution, where the external world is changed to the brain world, receptors - to the brain-computer interface, motor functions - to the computer-brain interface.
		The gradual uploading of mind (also known as gradual extension, metamorphosis [7], soft uploading, brain enhancement) could be evaluated as an alternative of atom-by-atom, or neuron-by-neuron uploading.
		The gradual uploading would be uploading of mind functions, not uploading of a morphological brain architectures.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Global/Uploading/gupload.html (3021 words)

	Philosophy of Mind: A Functionalist Primer
		A mind is identical with its closest close-enough continuous-enough continuer.
		Roger Penrose argues that the human mind is not computable because, given a formalization of one's mind and the Godel sentence for one's mind, a human mind allegedly could recognize the sentence as true whereas the formalized computation could not.
		Indeed, all of the conclusions of logic are binding on all possible minds, as logic is in fact the study of valid inference.
	humanknowledge.net /Philosophy/Epistemology/PhilosophyOfMind.html (2700 words)

	Uploading
		Uploading is the (so far hypothetical) process of transferring the mental structure and consciousness of a person to an external carrier, like a computer.
		An Introduction to Mind Uploading and its Concepts by Randal Koene.
		Gradual Uploading as a Cognition of Mind by Algimantas Malickas.
	www.aleph.se /Trans/Global/Uploading (553 words)

	Mind transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vitalists would say that uploading was a priori impossible.
		A novel in which he describes people living in an uploaded state as a means to control overpopulation.
		However, mind uploading is also advocated by a number of secular researchers in neuroscience and artificial intelligence, such as Marvin Minsky.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mind_uploading (2639 words)

	Merging With Technology
		Uploading (sometimes called “downloading”, “mind uploading” or “brain reconstruction”) is the process of transferring an intellect from a biological brain to a computer.
		A distinction is sometimes made between destructive uploading, in which the original brain is destroyed in the process, and non-destructive uploading, in which the original brain is preserved intact alongside the uploaded copy.
		Uploading should work for cryonics patients provided their brains are preserved in a sufficiently intact state.
	www.miqel.com /transhumanism_nano/posthuman-extropian-uploading.html (991 words)

	Transtopia -- Mind Uploading (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.tamu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Uploading is the transfer of the brain’s mindpattern onto a different substrate (such as an advanced computer) which better facilitates said entity’s ends.
		Uploading is a central concept in our vision of technological ascension; here I shall examine a few common objections, present thought experiments, and make a few points of my own.
		Why the practical consequences of this natural process could be extended, and applied to a procedure seemingly as alien and theoretical as uploading depends on one subtle observation, namely that our minds replace their substrates all the time by the units of the same kind (and atoms replaced by other atoms just implement this rule).
	www.transtopia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /uploading.html (2674 words)

	Accelerating Future » What is uploading?
		“Uploading”, besides referring to the transfer of data from a computer to a larger network, has a meaning in transhumanism and science fiction - the hypothesized transfer of a human mind to a computer.
		A commonly described scenario for uploading is the Moravec transfer - proposed by robotics maverick Hans Moravec - where organic neurons are progressively replaced by neuron-sized robots that perfectly simulate the input/output streams of neurons.
		Uploads would only consume as much power as the computers that implement them, their virtual bodies and environments.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /michael/blog/?p=25 (767 words)

	Mind Ramblings: Robots and Mind Uploading
		Computer minds: AI As far as raw computer intelligence is concerned, there are some very good reasons to believe the tide is about to turn.
		It is presently mid-2001 and I use the year 2000 as a round number to illustrate the present state of AI, robotics, and Mind Uploading.
		I believe AI is easier than Mind Uploading, and resultantly I believe the machines will arrive before we become the machines.
	www.cs.unm.edu /~kwiley/mindRamblings/robotsMindUploading.html (3162 words)

	Kodakgallery.com Help: Uploading Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Our preferred upload tools are the best choice for uploading large numbers of photos.
		However, before you begin uploading images from your computer's hard drive to the Gallery, make sure all of the photos you want to upload are stored as JPEG (.jpg,.jpeg or.jpe) files.
		If you have Easy Upload installed, but are having problems uploading, you may need to adjust your proxy server settings.
	www.kodakgallery.com /HelpUpload.jsp (1162 words)

	One for the Copper Tops. \| MetaFilter
		"Mind uploading" is interesting to me in that such scenarios tend to presuppose that the "mind" is then free to roam some kind of cyberscape wherein it makes its own reality.
		Like new-age gurus we have overstated claims of miracles such as mind uploading and holocausts such as grey goo in which the possibilities from one branch of science lead to a willfull ignorance of the limitations imposed by another.
		Treating human minds and computer programs as equivalent glosses over the basic problem that even some very simple real-world problems involve solutions that can't be solved using a computer in any realistic time frame.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/35906 (8983 words)

	Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion » Blog Archive » Templeton: “Open source ape” may ...
		This isn't the kind of change human minds were designed to adapt to, or any minds for that matter, so expect lots of failed uploaded minds if we try to do it.
		Then that AI can upload us (or not if, being a lot smarter than us, it turns out that that's a bad idea of the universe, though from where we stand now the chances of this happening are slim, but a possibility should never be completely discounted) in now time.
		Mind uploading, I believe is not totally unaprochable though, a much wider detour could be tempted rather than straight "technical" mind scan.
	www.foresight.org /nanodot/?p=916 (2418 words)

	scientists have managed to recreate all of the neurons in a small snail-like worm
		One interesting question about human uploads is the nature of their perceptual inputs.
		Given that uploading a nematode worm still poses annoying technical problems, it’s clear we’re not yet ready to upload a human brain.
		From a contemporary common sense point of view, the idea of yanking a mind out of the brain it’s embodied in, and transplanting it into a computer of some sort, sounds completely outlandish.
	www.goertzel.org /benzine/uploading.htm (3770 words)

	Danila
		His mind had no continuity at all; H.M. lost the ability to form most types of new memories, but he could form procedural memories and could learn some new music to play on the piano.
		At that point the favourite uploading procedure would be to get a nanobot to each neuron and then either 1) study the neuron, consume it and stay in its place, acting just like it or 2) study the neuron and send the data to the central computer.
		The biggest consequence of uploading (or strong AI, if it happens earlier) is the ability to accelerate the progress by 1) is the ability to increase speed and scale of thinking (you can make the uploaded mind or AI perform faster just by adding hardware).
	livingtomorrow.blogspot.com (4041 words)

	MIND Exchange
		Your upload would not ‘be’ you without this.
		Just a cloned mind with an entirely different, as you seem to desire, programed consciousness would be an entirely different entity in real terms.
		I’ve always thought of this as something a little less than uploading as uploading seems...I don’t know...to be signified by amorphousness.
	www.kurzweilai.net /mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=27512 (851 words)

	Terminology Sub-Page
		BRUTE FORCE UPLOADING: To upload somebody by scanning their neural patterns and simulating them directly with little or no changes, and no attempts to refine the patterns (also called blind uploading).
		UPLOAD: To transfer the consciousness and mental structure of a person from a biological matrix to an electronic or informational matrix.
		The term "Downloading" is also sometimes used, mainly to denote transferring the mind to a slower or less spacious matrix.
	mindstalk.net /extrodict.html (4015 words)

	paul-almond.com - Game Theory with Yourself
		You may be concerned that you are unable to put all thoughts of altruism from your mind, so that you cannot win the reward, even if you want to win it for yourself, because you still feel some regard for the other version of you.
		When an uploaded mind running in a computer system is presented with a choice in these scenarios, it will be obvious to an outside observer that there really is no choice to make - that what is going to happen has already been decided by the initial state of the system.
		A number of readers will accept the idea that the human mind could have a physical cause and that the brain's behaviour could be modelled by a computer, but will reject the idea that actual consciousness could be implemented in a computer.
	www.paul-almond.com /GameTheoryWithYourself.htm (7716 words)

	Soul uploading: vitalism: an aside
		A sidebar to a document on uploading souls.
		In a later lecture series, he tackled "Mind and Matter." In his own mind, he seems to have been satisfied with the idea that all the phenomena of life, including consciousness, can be explained in physical and chemical terms, although he was well aware that such explanations were far from complete in his day.
		Whereas most people used to think that the mind was, if you please, vital, most of them now believe that it is mechanical--it can be explained in chemical, physical and mathematical terms.
	home.earthlink.net /~mflabar/SoulUploading/vitalism.htm (976 words)

	Scenario: Uploading - Future - A Wikia wiki
		It is a widely held belief of transhumanists and extropians that at some point in the future mankind will develop the technology to transfer human consciousness from our existing biological structures into man-made computational devices or networks.
		Works by Hans Moravec : Mind Children There was a transcript posted in the early 90s to alt.cyberpunk for a speech that he gave to the American Library Association.
		With evolved values, most uploads would value life even when life is hard or short, uploads would reproduce quickly, and wages would fall.
	future.wikia.com /wiki/Uploading (768 words)

	Future Revival with the Help of Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An upload of a human mind into an electronic brain is not possible with present technologies, because we can not yet build computers, which can simulate all performances of the human mind.
		Another problem is that for the upload the essential information contents of the brain must be found out.
		If the progress in the computer technology is in the next decades as fast in the past decades, building such a brain-like computer, which can control a man-like robot, will be possible as early as the next 50 to 100 years.
	members.aol.com /klausrei/revinfe.htm (1177 words)

	Comments on 18988 \| MetaFilter
		The end result is, upon completion of the virtual model the person to be 'uploaded' is presented with an interface which represents the current %age balance of synaptic activity occurring in the flesh and in the machine.
		The virtual mind molecular simulation would of course have to be run on redundant machines with multiple one-minute backups in several locations (preferably a few off-planet and eventually out-system using particle-spin-based communication).
		The physical substrate on which our minds exists is ever-changing, losing information to the connection-destroying low-level background electrochemical noise in the mind, and forming new connections as we grasp new topics and fields of study.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/18988 (2835 words)

	Read My Mind!: Uploading Sea Slugs
		I read "Lobsters" by Charles Stross last night, a story where lobster nervous system states are uploaded to a neural net.
		Following the logic that upload technology would probably proceed from simpler nervous systems to more complex, I thought I would look into what's been happening with Pleurobranchaea which I vaguely recalled from Godel Escher Bach as having simple nervous systems with big neurons making them a favorite for experimentation in the lab.
		We are still a very long way from knowing what to upload but we seem to be learning more about how.
	www.billglover.com /blog/archives/000058.html (312 words)

	Recording our Memories, Personal Identity, and Cryonics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cryonic Suspension (preservation of the body or the brain at ultra-low temperatures in case of terminal illness or death, as defined today) offers the chance to preserve the complete information content of the brain.
		If you have not seen a close relative for years, than you will observe a change in behaviour, but you will not think that the relative is another person.
		Definitions of personal identity which allow brain enhancement or uploading, but which do not allow a revival with the help of records are inconsequent and wrong.
	members.aol.com /klausrei/recmem.htm (1064 words)

	Extropian Page
		Mind uploading is the biggest thing that interests me in extropianism.
		The basic idea is that mankind will eventually find a way to upload his mind into a computer.
		The Mind Uploading Home Page attempts to answer that with theories that have been tossed around...
	www.geocities.com /Athens/4499/extropy.html (638 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)