to upload
- verb
- /ˈʌpˌloʊd/
- The question is how do we upload our consciousness to some sort of server present?
- mind uploading
- upload your consciousness
- uploaded personality
When he gets uploaded to the cloud, he's going to get uploaded to the cloud.
- When he gets uploaded to the cloud, he's going to get uploaded to the cloud.
- So when I see people rushing off to upload consciousness to a chip, it feels more like escape from humanity than it is a journey forward.
Examples
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Suppose your mad scientist uploads all the data that specifies the atoms of your brain into a megacomputer.
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And keep the memory upload going at the same time.
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Well, well, uploading your brain is a little bit later, but yes, we'll be able to.
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And what is Mind-Uploading in the first place?
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Alex... we're gonna upload the entire DPD database into your brain.
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IG-88 eventually uploads his consciousness into a computer core destined for Death Star II.
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People often dream of the day when they can upload their minds into a virtual world for eternity.
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In the future, scientists may find a way to upload human consciousness into a digital format.
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He hopes to upload his thoughts into a computer memory to preserve them forever.
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Etymology
Upload in science fiction uses the same picture from up ('up') and load ('a thing you carry'). A helpful way to remember this sense is to imagine lifting your mind like a suitcase into the cloud, so to upload a person's mind is to copy their mind 'up' into a computer or virtual world.