mind uploading theme
There is a technology used to transfer someone's mind to a computer or some sort of artificial brain.
Examples
The mind of pop singer Ashley O was transfer into the AI doll Ashley Too in the Black Mirror story "Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too" (2019).
20 total · 4 choice · 9 major · 7 minor
| Story | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| as1985e2x12 | choice | John uploaded the contents of his mind to a computer before expiring from an unspecified illness. The story explores how the uploaded version of John was unhappy because it could only experience the world from a cold, analytic point of view. |
| ldr2019e1x15 | choice | In a twist ending, it turned out that Hawk, Kali, and Sui had electronically backed up their minds before setting out on the dangerous mission to rob a heavily-armed convoy. As a result, they would live on even though their physical bodies were utterly destroyed on the mission. |
| movie: Ghost in the Machine (1993) | choice | A serial killer continued plotting murders after he died and his mind got transfered into a computer network in a freak occurrence. |
| movie: Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (1985) | choice | The contents of Edison's mind were uploaded to a computer and the entity the resulted became the television star Max Headroom. |
| blackmirror5x03 | major | Ashley O's mind was transfer into the Ashley Too doll. |
| movie: Freejack (1992) | major | Ian McCandless had a copy of his mind uploaded to a computer before he died. |
| movie: Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence (2004) | major | A revelation of the film is that the doll-like sex robots behaved realistically because they each contained a duplicated consciousness of a young girl. Kim transferred his consciousness into the shell of a creepy, human-sized marionette. |
| movie: Knight Rider 2010 (1994) | major | Hanna accidentally downloaded her mind into a crystalline solid-state memory unit. |
| movie: The Lawnmower Man (1992) | major | Jobe used the lab equipment to enter the VSI mainframe and become a digital being, leaving his body behind like a husk. |
| tng2x06 | major | Ira transferred his mind into Data. |