Not only do you not get into the same river twice, it's also always a different person from one moment to the next.
A concept, that of granular time, by the way, which also is just a tool for the brain to make the outside world easier to navigate.
The sense of temporally overlapping unity of consciousness is a useful trick of the body to think of itself as an acting subject in its model of the world.
The agent of the body's interests in it.
In the brain, there is no distinction between software and hardware.
If you build a machine whose software rewires the hardware and the hardware rewrites its software in real time under the influence of the outside world and some, over thousands of generations more or less hardwired structures, you get closer to what the brain and mind do and are.
So, sorry no uploading of a somehow separate consciousness into a machine.
Even if possible, you would have two beings.
One still pure social/wetware. One, the 'copy' of the former, ended up in an artificial hell.
The copies are independent persons.
Not only do you not get into the same river twice, it's also always a different person from one moment to the next. A concept, that of granular time, by the way, which also is just a tool for the brain to make the outside world easier to navigate.
The sense of temporally overlapping unity of consciousness is a useful trick of the body to think of itself as an acting subject in its model of the world. The agent of the body's interests in it.
In the brain, there is no distinction between software and hardware. If you build a machine whose software rewires the hardware and the hardware rewrites its software in real time under the influence of the outside world and some, over thousands of generations more or less hardwired structures, you get closer to what the brain and mind do and are.
So, sorry no uploading of a somehow separate consciousness into a machine. Even if possible, you would have two beings. One still pure social/wetware. One, the 'copy' of the former, ended up in an artificial hell.