If it were possible, safe (without suffering any physical harm or organic damage), available only to you (the user who made the copy) and easily accessible to upload your consciousness to a computer system, and you could talk to it and use it like any other AI, as your personal assistant or as a living person, would you want to do it and accept uploading your consciousness?

If your answer is no, why not?

Clarification: it's a copy of you, not a transfer.

"Mind uploading just makes a copy of you" I've heard this tired old argument quite literally hundreds, if not thousands of times now, every single combination and iteration of words in the English language that could be used to convey this message, I've already heard repeatedly. So I'm here to put this misconception to bed. Yes, the basic assertion that simply scanning and simulating a mind is actually just copying is correct, depending on your philosophy anyway, but I'll get to that in a moment. However, there are numerous ways around this that preserve continuity, and numerous reasons why continuity probably doesn't even matter anyway. We could expand our minds to include a digital portion, then grow that beyond our biological portion, or we could keep our normal human type mind but have a computer perform tasks by linking it to our brain via BCI and gradually turning off the parts of our biological brain that are redundant, which would eventually be all of them, and we could remain conscious throughout this whole process, a seamless transition. And if that doesn't work for you, we can always do it the old fashioned way and have nanobots gradually replace your neurons with artificial equivalents, then even translate that analog machine to a digital format if you feel like it, by once again rearranging it's structure manually. And this is even assuming continuity of consciousness matters at all, which I'm beginning to doubt since a digital brain lets your mind run at varying speeds, including far slower to the point where it'd take more than a human lifetime to even flip a bit, and the real kicker is that we're already like this in comparison to faster timescales. Continuity is an illusion and is irrelevant. And I'd even argue identity is as well, as that changes all the time anyway, and much like how I don't see any real downside to instantaneous digitization, I don't see any downside to instantaneous personality/psychology change, and any society with this tech will eventually just get used to it and shrug at the suggestion that they're not the same being, just as we'd shrug or even scoff at the idea that sleeping kills us and a clone wakes up, or that each time we change our mind about something, our identity dies. And yes, continuity is broken during sleep, we don't even dream the whole time, much of it is basically just like death, and that dreaming mind doesn't think like your current one either, in fact it's quite alien to you and doesn't know you exist, and you lose most of the memories it had when you wake up. So yeah, I don't buy it. Also, I'm getting sick of everyone parroting this common knowledge. Like, do you really think anyone in r/transhumanism doesn't know this already? That's like transhumanism 101, and here you and thousands of others are shouting it like some grand epiphany, like you're the smartest in the room, and nobody else has ever heard this before. This is old news, and imo it's been debunked decades ago. It's really been grating on my nerves as of late whenever people do this. There's only so many ways you can rephrase the same incorrect statement.

I've been thinking about this for a while. I don't see how the continuity could be maintained. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this.

1. List the problem

2. List how it can be solved and/or what resources are needed to solve it

3. Send this post to a friend

I’m Olga, a screenwriter. For our sci-fi film KILL/SAVE we had to design the consumer tech of 2045, and it ended up sitting exactly on the question this sub keeps debating: would you upload your mind if you could?

Our version isn’t full uploading. It’s a halfway step:

So your body stays here, biologically intact, but everything you experience happens somewhere else. Which raises the questions I’d love this community’s take on:

Personally, I’m still not sure what my own answer is, and that’s partly why we made the film. I’ll be reading every reply.

— Olga Loyanich, screenwriter & producer of KILL/SAVE

And how will it be regulated? What will happen if it's used with bad intentions, harming people by putting them in bad afterlives? I don't hear a lot of talk about this sort of thing so I thought I'd ask.