Banking on being uploaded (Image: Rex Features)
The author of the sci-fi “Culture” novels contemplates how and why you might upload yourself to a computer – and the place of torture in his novels
Your latest book, Surface Detail, is based on the tantalising idea that we may one day choose to upload our minds to computers. How would that work?
The contents of your brain would be scanned down to the last molecule and electrochemical impulse and then translated non-destructively into digital form, so the essence of “you” is recreated inside a computer – your consciousness, personality and memories.
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