Talk:Mind uploading in fiction

message: I added Cowboy Bebop, Rifts, HU and Mechaniods :) Tyciol 08:19, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Does there have to be machines or electronics to transfer a mind from one body to another?   How about J. T. McIntosh's Transmigration (1970), where some people are simply born with the rare faculty of mind to mind transference?   Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 10:44, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Claim your authorship!

message: This whole article needs to have its examples reorganized by era so we can go straight to the literature (or films) of a specific decade.   Somebody needs to go through the whole blasted article and organize it better so we know who came up with which ideas first, and which ones are just novel takes on an idea that was dealt with similarly years earlier.
I am trying to identify a novel written in the 1960s where people climb into a machine, and it shuffles their minds together, producing a being with a "merged" mind having a combination of the memories (both good and bad, memories you would be proud to have, as well as those you would be embarrassed or ashamed to have) that came before.   Some might argue this kind of a theme is distantly related to "mind transfer" but an argument could be raised it is actually something else.   I don't know.   All I know, is that I have been looking for this book for years, and haven't been able to find it.    The main article as written doesn't help.  Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 22:34, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sorting out the examples by Years

message: Why the  template from 2010? Each reviewed SciFi book and movie is a source in itself. There is no analysis in this article - only a large number of plot summaries. Mange01 (talk) 22:10, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Also fictional content can be sourced. In the lead of the article, there even already are analytical remarks. --Hans Dunkelberg (talk) 11:01, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What analytical remarks are suspected original research, and should be sourced? Please add  where appropriate instead of the  template. Mange01 (talk) 13:48, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well — I have not added the "Refimprove" template. I usually only challenge information that I doubt, and in this article, I have not yet stumbled on such. --Hans Dunkelberg (talk) 14:26, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional sources really needed? 

message: It's indicative that "Quantum Thief" series by Hannu Rajaniemi has not been mentioned. There is no quantum aspects of mind uploading touched on even in main Mind Uploadinghttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading wiki issue but the last theoretical and experimental findings made by Penrose, Hameroff and Bandyopadhyay show that quantum basis of consciousness could not be ignored anymore.
And one should remember that there is no strict "hard"/"soft" separation in quantum case.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.120.76.21 (talk) 16:57, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quantum mind uploading should be fundamentally different 

message: Someone should add Elysium (film) and Johnny Mnemonic to Films. pear 14:15, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elysium 

message: Black Mirror (TV series) season 3 episode 0 White Christmas (Black Mirror) should be also added, strong ethical aspect 
Tylkofarci (talk) 11:36, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Mirror 

message: There's no meantion of Accelerando in the article?! Please add it. --Fixuture (talk) 13:42, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accelerando 

message: Someone should add Replicas (film) to Films.-- self-ref (nagasiva yronwode) (talk) 06:05, 31 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replicas 

message: I would propose to sort the info by decade, and then (optionally) by the genre. It will better illustrate how the fiction has evolved with the growing scientific understanding of the human mind / brain. The sorting of fiction by decade is also seems to be a common approach on Wikipedia. For example: Mars in fiction --Thereisnous (talk) 14:01, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting by time 

message: I think https://qntm.org/mmacevedo deserves to be added to the list. Inahc (talk) 03:23, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further-er examples 

message: The concept "mind uploading" and "digital life" are present in the 2023 film The Wandering Earth 2.
Bczhc (talk) 15:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add ''The Wandering Earth 2'' 

message: In Zelazny's Lord of Light, souls are moved – not copied – to another vessel of the same kind.  Unlike most of the listed examples, there is no hint of any possibility of copying or inactive storage.  Much as I love it, I reckon it does not belong here. —Tamfang (talk) 00:41, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Lord of Light'' 

message: In The Stone Canal, part of Ken MacLeod's "Fall Revolution" saga, the protagonist JW was scanned at some time in the past, lived as a robot for an indefinite time, and is told at some point that his mind has changed too much to be put back into a standard human brain; so instead he programs a clone with his original scan.  (Later, he obtains technology from super-minds that lets him put his current mind into human flesh.)  
Enough years have passed since reading it that I am not confident about putting it into the list myself. —Tamfang (talk) 01:07, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''The Stone Canal'' 

message: Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Should add to film list.
~~ED~~ 2607:FEA8:483:8E00:4975:9B7F:B9A:82B (talk) 00:33, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Is any personality transferred into a machine in that story? —Tamfang (talk) 23:45, 19 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total Recall (1990 film) 

message: Notable, indeed. Body swap may be a relevant (identical) concept, however? @TompaDompa Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 04:32, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction distinguishes between identity transfer (one-way) and identity exchange (two-way). I think that's the right way to do it. TompaDompa (talk) 12:25, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[identity transfer]]