Transferring our minds into artificial brains

I agree with you about the Merriam-Webster definition of mind, but I do not agree with the personality being possible to be included. As a computerized mind you could argue that all our knowledge could be transferred into a computer, but it would be devoid of us, as individuals. The human mind is based on a cerebral cortex which could likely be duplicated into a machine equivalent with future technology, but how could you copy the emotional, moral and spiritual centers of our brain which define us as human beings? Emotions, our morality and spirituality are based on abstract emotions regulated by different areas of our brain. It involves neurotransmitters, altered by a multitude of factors, ATP, neurotransmitter interaction, neuropeptides, oxygen levels, psychology etc. The mind is more than electrical nerve impulses. How would you duplicate the neurotransmitters, neuropeptides etc in the brain? If you manage to duplicate such processes in an artificial mind you would need to do so on an exact level of complexity as the human brain, as even a nearly imperceptible alteration in such levels have dramatic impact on emotions, hunger and the human experience. How would you duplicate oxygen and the impact it has on the brain/mind? Oxygen is the key to life. If a person whose mind is transferred to a computer is introvert, but might become extrovert due to courage, which is an abstract emotion, how would you duplicate courage? How would you duplicate humans sex drive which is one of the strongest forces in human nature? Our personalities are infused with a sexual instinct to find a suitable partner and procreate. It models our behaviour and our thinking. For most people, if we don't have a partner, we desire one. Loneliness and the potential lack of offspring is a prime motivator in human beings to change that state. If our minds are computerized, how would the mind and personality remain the same as previously in human brain form, if we cannot procreate? Females biological clock would be hindered, which would likely affect their personality dramatically, and possibly in ways that cannot be extrapolated until such an event would occur. Males who could not procreate and create offspring would not be the same either, their personalities would be affected negatively and the desire to find a computerized mind partner and what the desired qualities in such a partner would be, would likely change due to sexual procreation no longer being a factor in such relationships. It would likely gear computerized mind people into more machine like beings devoid of emotion, if emotions are possible in computerized minds, as having a partner and procreating are fundamental aspects of being human. If computerized minds in essence would be immortal, and personality was able to be intact artificially, how would the personality remain the same if birth and death are meaningless due to immortality? Would such people develop into cold and calculating machines with no regard for 'lesser' beings who live and die? The research article that you linked to is a great start in science, but is very far from what could be classified as an artificial brain, based on my previous argument about neurotransmitters etc. I do not posit that clones behave similarly, this would merely be the case if fate/destiny were real. Otherwise, clones would be unique beings with perhaps similar personality traits and thought patterns as the original human they were cloned from, depending on what cloning reproduces. Your point about the phantom limb phenomenon was logical and viable. I retract my argument about it, The ability to transfer minds into artificial brains also pose the question, do souls exist? If they do, could you transfer that into artificial brains? If you can, it would negate the existence of souls as something independent of the containment of the human body, and a man-made term to explain our consciousness as more than an animalistic evolution which has led us to be self-aware. It would also negate all abstract emotions we have, even the abstract word 'mind' as nothing more than biological processes no different than in animals. If souls do exist, and you can't transfer them into artificial brains, and your mind is connected to your soul, then you should not either be able to transfer your mind into an artificial brain. If you are able to transfer your mind into a computer, but don't just transfer your mind into one, but e.g 100 computers, which copy if any would be you? The definition of being a human being, having a mind, is meaning having one mind, one body. Your personality is based on 1. If you have e.g 100 copies of your mind, how could any of them say that they are you, and how could your consciousness as you know it, which defines you as a singular individual simultaneously exist in a 100 copies? All 100 copies of you would need to be exactly the same, to the same thought patterns and behaviours, for it to be you. Even if you just upload your mind into 2 computers, which one would be you?