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Moravec's essay of 1989, in a section headed "Transmigration", describes a robot surgeon simulating and then removing a conscious patient's brain layer by layer, so that the mind is "transferred to a machine". Copy claim link
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Date 1989-09 · publication Records dated 1989 → Wording attested 1999-11-10. The cross-family check found the archive capture of 10 November 1999 byte-identical to the copy read. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The page states that it is adapted from Mind Children (1988), which was not read.
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After Life ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML, Carnegie Mellon University project archive) · 1989-09
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Source excerpt “Though you have not lost consciousness, or even your train of thought, your mind has been removed from the brain and transferred to a machine.” Location in source Section "Transmigration"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 d9cdeba72b5376e21c1ace052ac4bcf5e1a4773134a8bbc84dbbbaa2de035679). Author-hosted HTML printing "© 1989 by Hans Moravec" and "This article is adapted from the author's book Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence, Harvard University Press, October 1988". Earliest capture located: 1999-11-10 (not compared). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “After Life”, 1989-09. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (25 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 98) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
After Life ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML, Carnegie Mellon University project archive) · 1989-09
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Source excerpt “Is there a way to get our mind out of our brain?” Location in source Section "Transmigration"
How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 d9cdeba72b5376e21c1ace052ac4bcf5e1a4773134a8bbc84dbbbaa2de035679). Author-hosted HTML printing "© 1989 by Hans Moravec" and "This article is adapted from the author's book Mind Children: the future of robot and human intelligence, Harvard University Press, October 1988". Earliest capture located: 1999-11-10 (not compared). Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “After Life”, 1989-09. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, machine succession, scale and acceleration (research/heterodox-thought). The quotation (12 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-11-01, item 98) re-read the record’s source and agreed with its stance; its corrections were applied at admission. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Machine-checked . Machines found this record and checked it against its sources; no person accepted it individually. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
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Date. Informal report of September 1989, per the author's publication list.
Record ID ht-w03-moravec-1989-after-life