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Moravec's essay of 1992 describes the gradual replacement of a brain by electronic equivalents and names this and similar processes "the downloading of a human mind into a machine". Copy claim link
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Date 1992 · publication Records dated 1992 → Wording attested 1999-04-27. The cross-family check found the quoted passages in the archive capture of 27 April 1999; the file's bytes differ elsewhere. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The essay also states that a downloaded mind streamlined for cyberspace "could in no sense be considered any longer human".
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Pigs in Cyberspace ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Thinking Robots, an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians (LITA, 1992), pp. 15-21, and Extropy 10 (January 1993) · 1992
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Source excerpt “Bit by bit our brain is replaced by electronic equivalents, which work at least as well, leaving our personality and thoughts clearer than ever.” Location in source Section "Mind without Body?"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 967f23fd6f6c2cd1bc5cc2458f89bca80d4e7f9b9d15e96dbf00e8ea08e49e54). Author-hosted HTML headed "Pigs in Cyberspace Hans Moravec 1992". Exponents are flattened in the cached text (for example "1056" for 10^56). Earliest capture located: 1999-04-27 (not compared). Printed versions not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “Pigs in Cyberspace”, 1992. 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 (24 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 66) 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
Pigs in Cyberspace ↗ Hans Moravec (author-hosted HTML); the author's publication list gives Thinking Robots, an aware internet and cyberpunk librarians (LITA, 1992), pp. 15-21, and Extropy 10 (January 1993) · 1992
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Source excerpt “We will call this process, and other approaches with the same end result, the downloading of a human mind into a machine.” Location in source Section "Mind without Body?"
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Source details and check notes Authors Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 967f23fd6f6c2cd1bc5cc2458f89bca80d4e7f9b9d15e96dbf00e8ea08e49e54). Author-hosted HTML headed "Pigs in Cyberspace Hans Moravec 1992". Exponents are flattened in the cached text (for example "1056" for 10^56). Earliest capture located: 1999-04-27 (not compared). Printed versions not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Hans Moravec, “Pigs in Cyberspace”, 1992. 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 (22 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 66) 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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