I've always thought of mind uploading as a comforting lie. Like what you tell a small child about what happened to the old dog. "He's in a better place now".
The idea of the singularity implies that the complexity of technology moves above anything humanity can understand. It is unclear whether there still be any use for our kind of individual conscious mind. At what scale will cognition happen? Will the world itself turn into a kind of brain?
But I'm with you in hoping that the Minds will be like the culture's and keep us around as pets in a sort of enlightened hedonism :-)
The idea of the singularity implies that the complexity of technology moves above anything humanity can understand. It is unclear whether there still be any use for our kind of individual conscious mind. At what scale will cognition happen? Will the world itself turn into a kind of brain?
But I'm with you in hoping that the Minds will be like the culture's and keep us around as pets in a sort of enlightened hedonism :-)