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Mind uploading

As explained in Inside AI

Mind uploading is the hypothetical transfer of a person's mental states or cognitive processes into a computational system.

Mind uploading is the hypothetical transfer of a person's mental states or cognitive processes into a computational system. Current evidence supports related brain-computer interfaces, not whole-mind transfer. section 9.3

A rehabilitation milestone, not an uploaded mind

Electrodes smaller than a grain of sand received signals from a robot arm and enabled tactile sensations in a paralyzed hand by bypassing spinal-cord damage. This demonstrates medical rehabilitation potential without demonstrating mind uploading. section 9.3

Grand claims remain unsupported because neuroscience does not yet fundamentally understand how the brain operates. Artificial neural-network neurons should therefore not be treated as biological neurons. section 9.3

How Inside AI covers it

How deep it goes
Defines the proposed transfer and examines its evidential limits, but stops short of explaining a method for modeling or transferring minds.
Examples
Uses tactile feedback from a robot arm and forecasts of reverse-engineered brains to contrast evidence with speculation.
What you can do after
Evaluate/understand mind-uploading claims by distinguishing current interfaces from unsupported predictions about synthetic humans or transferred minds.
How it connects
Connects mind uploading with brain-computer interfaces, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, deep learning, and Moore's law.

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