Infomorph

The term Infomorph refers to a consciousness uploaded or downloaded into a computer (mind transfer) from a biological entity. A concept primarily used in science fiction, it has appeared in various guises:

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• in novels like Frederik Pohl's Gateway series and Poul Anderson's Genesis (to name a very few)
• on TV series such as ' (Ira Graves) and Red Dwarf (Arnold Rimmer)
• on roleplaying games, such as Transhuman Space.

Whether it will ever be more than a theory is uncertain, but computing power is still increasing exponentially (see Moore's law for more details), and that end of the theory may be technologically feasible at some point in the future. No viable theories on how to download the consciousness from the body, however, have been proposed.

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Mind transfer: In transhumanism and science fiction, mind transfer (also referred to as mind uploading or mind downloading, depending on one's point of reference), or whole body emulation refers to the hypothetical transfer of a human mind, body, and environment to an artificial substrate....

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