Is It Natural To Upload Consciousness?
We must ask if achieving brain emulation, or the ability to upload consciousness itself, is a natural part of human evolution
“Our greatest human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.” — Tom Robbins
In the tangled depths of a nearby national park lays hidden and almost secret lake that, like moth to flame, I eagerly venture to several times a year. I had found it through the use of satellite imagery online — accessible via a dusty drive up part of a mountain, a strenuous bike further up the other part of the mountain, and then some on-footery through dense brush, escaping modernity as if it were a pack of unshakable hounds.
Nature does her best to keep the more curious trekkers away from this nestled oasis: the trail is neglected, overgrown and unmarked; swaths of mosquitoes and deerflies, gnats and horseflies perpetually stalk anything with a heartbeat. By all accounts, it’s as though the trail is not meant to exist — it’s prone to wash outs and flooding, it weaves irrationally and inefficiently through the woods and, eventually, becomes so…
