Editing Mind uploading (section)

== Advocates ==
In 1979, [[Hans Moravec]] (1979) described and endorsed mind uploading using a brain surgeon.<ref>{{cite web| url= https://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1978/analog.1978.html |title= Today's Computers, Intelligent Machines and Our Future| publisher= [[Field Robotics Center]], [[Robotics Institute]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]] |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221219111328/https://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/~hpm/project.archive/general.articles/1978/analog.1978.html |archive-date=2022-12-19 |first= Hans |last= Moravec| year= 1979| access-date= }} [[wikidata:Q115765733|wikidata]]</ref> Moravec used a similar description in 1988, calling it "transmigration".<ref name= "moravec1988">{{cite book| title= Mind Children |first= Hans |last= Moravec| year= 1988| publisher= }}</ref>

[[Ray Kurzweil]], director of engineering at [[Google]], has long predicted that people will be able to "upload" their entire brains to computers and become "digitally immortal" by 2045. Kurzweil made this claim for many years, e.g. during his speech in 2013 at the [[2045 Initiative|Global Futures 2045]] International Congress in New York, which claims to subscribe to a similar set of beliefs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mind-uploading-2045-futurists_n_3458961 |title='Mind Uploading' & Digital Immortality May Be Reality By 2045, Futurists Say |work=Huffington Post |date=June 18, 2013| access-date= March 8, 2024}}</ref> Mind uploading has also been advocated by a number of researchers in [[neuroscience]] and [[artificial intelligence]], such as Marvin Minsky.{{Citation needed|date=March 2016}} In 1993, Joe Strout created a small web site called the Mind Uploading Home Page, and began advocating the idea in [[cryonics]] circles and elsewhere on the net. That site has not been actively updated in recent years, but it has spawned other sites including MindUploading.org, run by [[Randal A. Koene]], who also moderates a mailing list on the topic. These advocates see mind uploading as a medical procedure which could eventually save countless lives.

Many transhumanists look forward to the development and deployment of mind uploading technology, with transhumanists such as [[Nick Bostrom]] predicting that it will become possible within the 21st century due to technological trends such as Moore's law.<ref name=Roadmap/>

[[Michio Kaku]], in collaboration with [[Science (TV network)|Science]], hosted a documentary, ''Sci Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible'', based on his book ''[[Physics of the Impossible]]''. Episode four, titled "How to Teleport", mentions that mind uploading via techniques such as [[quantum entanglement]] and whole brain emulation using an advanced [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI machine]] may enable people to be transported vast distances at near light-speed.

The book ''Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds'' by [[Gregory S. Paul]] & Earl D. Cox, is about the eventual (and, to the authors, almost inevitable) evolution of computers into [[sentience|sentient]] beings, but also deals with human mind transfer. [[Richard Doyle (actor)|Richard Doyle]]'s ''Wetwares: Experiments in PostVital Living'' deals extensively with uploading from the perspective of distributed embodiment, arguing for example that humans are currently part of the "artificial life phenotype". Doyle's vision reverses the polarity on uploading, with artificial life forms such as uploads actively seeking out biological embodiment as part of their reproductive strategy.