Editing Mind uploading (section)

==Overview==
Many neuroscientists believe that the human [[mind]] is largely an [[Emergence|emergent]] property of the information processing of its [[neuronal network]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hopfield|first=J. J.|date=1982-04-01|title=Neural networks and physical systems with emergent collective computational abilities.|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences| volume=79|issue=8|pages=2554–2558| doi= 10.1073/pnas.79.8.2554| pmid= 6953413 |pmc= 346238 |bibcode= 1982PNAS...79.2554H |issn=0027-8424 |doi-access=free}}</ref>

Neuroscientists have stated that important functions performed by the mind, such as learning, memory, and consciousness, are due to purely physical and electrochemical processes in the brain and are governed by applicable laws. For example, [[Christof Koch]] and [[Giulio Tononi]] wrote in ''[[IEEE Spectrum]]'':

{{Blockquote|Consciousness is part of the natural world. It depends, we believe, only on mathematics and logic and on the imperfectly known laws of physics, chemistry, and biology; it does not arise from some magical or otherworldly quality.<ref name="ieee_conscious">{{cite journal |doi= 10.1109/MSPEC.2008.4531463 |title=Can machines be conscious? |year=2008 |last1=Koch |first1=Christof |author-link1= Giulio Tononi |last2=Tononi |first2= Giulio |journal= IEEE Spectrum |volume=45 |pages=55 |issue=6|s2cid=7226896 |url=https://authors.library.caltech.edu/11693/1/KOCieeespec08.pdf }}</ref>}}

Eminent [[computer scientists]] and neuroscientists have predicted that advanced computers will be capable of thought and even attain consciousness, including Koch and Tononi,<ref name="ieee_conscious"/> [[Douglas Hofstadter]],<ref name="spectrum.ieee.org">{{cite web |title=Tech Luminaries Address Singularity |url=http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6277 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090501102356/http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jun08/6277 |archive-date=2009-05-01 |access-date=2009-04-02 |work=[[IEEE]]}}</ref> [[Jeff Hawkins]],<ref name="spectrum.ieee.org"/> [[Marvin Minsky]],<ref>{{cite journal| first= Marvin | last= Minsky| author-link= Marvin Minsky| title= Conscious Machines| journal= Machinery of Consciousness| publisher= Proceedings, National Research Council of Canada, 75th Anniversary Symposium on Science in Society |date= June 1991}}</ref> Randal A. Koene, and [[Rodolfo Llinás]].<ref name="Llinas">{{cite book
 | last = Llinas
 | first = R
 |pages = 261–262
 | title = I of the vortex: from neurons to self
 | year = 2001
 | publisher = MIT Press
 | location = Cambridge
 | isbn = 978-0-262-62163-2
 | title-link = I of the vortex: from neurons to self
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Many theorists have presented models of the brain and have established a range of estimates of the amount of computing power needed for partial and complete simulations.<ref name="ReferenceA"/><ref name=Roadmap/> Using these models, some have estimated that uploading may become possible within decades if trends such as [[Moore's law]] continue.<ref>{{cite web| first= Ray |last= Kurzweil|author-link=Ray Kurzweil|url=http://www.kurzweilai.net/live-forever-uploading-the-human-braincloser-than-you-think|title=Live Forever–Uploading The Human Brain...Closer Than You Think|work=Psychology Today |date= February 2000}}</ref> As of December 2022, this kind of technology is almost entirely theoretical.