This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Working Title: Brain Uploading: From YKTTW
Micah: Is that "Identity Theft" by Robert J. Sawyer? That's the only one I can find a reference to on Google, but for obvious reasons it's a hard title to search for...
Tulling: Removed this: "The Mother Ship in Homeworld" since it is not an example of this trope. It was an example of "brain wired into computer for use as CPU" (which is perhaps a trope of its own), and the backstory justified it with them being unable to make an AI that could handle a sufficiently large number of decisions. Besides, they successfully disconnected Sjet afterwards.
Gattsuru: The Mothership is an example of a Wetware CPU if there is one, but the Homeworld setting doesn't seem to allow Brain Uploading; even the Bentussi keep enough flesh for the Homeworld Cataclysm Body Horror to work with. Going to clean up the GitS example, original text read :
- Ghost In The Shell, when not focusing on sociology, likes to take a trip down this lane. Minds can be copied, although most people go insane. (One person goes through the process 6 times with no problems.) It also asks the question of what makes up a mind, the soul or the memories, when a boy receives all of his father's memories with interesting effects. Whether people really can upload their minds remains unanswered, as no one has ever tried hard enough, or weren't human and we're not sure if they had souls... Git S likes this trope, often to deconstruction-like levels.
