<story><title>Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/will-you-ever-be-able-to-upload-your-brain.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rl3</author><text>The author seems to have written the article on the assumption that it will be humans figuring out a brain upload mechanism.&lt;p&gt;While his time frame estimates might be sound given that context, I&amp;#x27;d argue they&amp;#x27;re wildly inaccurate given a more likely scenario: such things will be brought into existence first via a super-intelligent agent, if at all.&lt;p&gt;If that proves to be the case, the time frame for brain uploading becomes roughly bound to the advent of AGI. When that happens, the same entity capable of creating our brain upload mechanism would likely be capable of endowing humans with effectively immortal bodies just the same.&lt;p&gt;In other words, technology like this is almost certainly going to be part of a post-singularity world (assuming there is a singularity in the first place), and who knows what that will look like.</text></comment>
<story><title>Will You Ever Be Able to Upload Your Brain?</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/opinion/sunday/will-you-ever-be-able-to-upload-your-brain.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>0xcde4c3db</author><text>I think discussions around this are ill-served by the &amp;quot;upload&amp;quot; metaphor, as it somewhat implies that the new brain, the original brain, and the uploading process are all largely separate things. It seems much more likely to me that the new brain will take the form of an augmentation that survives the death of the original brain. The personality would be &amp;quot;uploaded&amp;quot; not by deliberately sampling parameters to feed a model, but by the new brain organically (heh) becoming a component and embodiment of the existing personality. I&amp;#x27;m sure this isn&amp;#x27;t a new idea, but I don&amp;#x27;t know what it&amp;#x27;s called.</text></comment>