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Oh yes. See also The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who replaced each part of himself as he chopped them off. There's an early AI researcher who brought up the

Oh yes. See also The Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, who replaced each part of himself as he chopped them off. There's an early AI researcher who brought up the neuron-by-neuron replacement too, but I can't remember who off-hand (might have been Moravec)

andyjohnson0 13y ago
Sometimes called the Moravec Procedure: http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/moravec.html http://www.ibiblio.org/jstrout/uploading/moravec.html
- kybernetikos 13y ago
  I'd be reasonably happy with the Moravec Procedure where I would be much less happy with most other ways of uploading (the whole thing is based on my irrational but hard to shake belief in my own persistence over time). Of course, the question then of who to trust to be your cloud provider running your conciousness-as-a-service process becomes a very serious one. I don't think there's a single company around today that I would trust to run me.
  - andyjohnson0 13y ago
    Of course, the question then of who to trust to be your cloud provider running your conciousness-as-a-service process becomes a very serious one. The main problem is the lawyers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E
    - kybernetikos 13y ago
      Thanks for that link. If there's one service I don't want to be freemium....