NexGen Space Travel: Uploading the Human Mind

NexGen Space Travel: Uploading the Human Mind: "Human consciousness is irrevocably integrated in our organic components. People have always thought of themselves according to the leading technological systems of the day, and with us that's computers - but the mind isn't a program that can be copied out onto upgraded hardware. It's an emergent effect of a hundred billion neurons, uncountable connections, a bath of chemicals and all sorts of input from our body.Besides, the very word 'copy' shows that even if you could do it, you wouldn't benefit - since the copy can exist at the same time, it has to be someone else."