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Pohl and Moravec's OMNI article of 1993 presents, in the second person, a patient offered "a mind transplant" into a computer, and asks how the memory, speed and flexibility of a human mind could be put into a machine. Copy claim link
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Date 1993-11 · publication Records dated 1993 → Wording attested 2026-10-31. Wording read in the copy retrieved on 2026-10-31; the availability API reported no Internet Archive capture of this address. Not compared with any printed version. Role Articulation Register (kind of text) Nonfiction Scope and limits The opening is an imagined scenario that the authors call "science fiction--today"; the article is jointly signed, and the passages are not attributed to either author separately.
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Souls in Silicon ↗ Author-hosted HTML on Hans Moravec's site; published in OMNI 16 (2), November 1993, pp. 66-76 · 1993-11
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Source excerpt “You're a possible candidate for a mind transplant.” Location in source Opening scenario
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Source details and check notes Authors Frederik Pohl; Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 e9f0df2cb61beb38c39cfe0f5f0d001e522eeebb23b5fb72868c1722ee7fb219). Author-hosted HTML headed "Souls in Silicon by Frederik Pohl & Hans Moravec OMNI November 1993 pp. 66-76". No capture located; the magazine pages were not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Frederik Pohl, Hans Moravec, “Souls in Silicon”, 1993-11. 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 (8 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. No human editorial review. primary source Supports the claim
Souls in Silicon ↗ Author-hosted HTML on Hans Moravec's site; published in OMNI 16 (2), November 1993, pp. 66-76 · 1993-11
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Source excerpt “Given the probable existence of such hypercomputers within the lifetimes of many of us now alive, how do we go about getting all the memory, speed, and flexibility of a human mind into the machine?” Location in source Section after the opening scenario
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Source details and check notes Authors Frederik Pohl; Hans Moravec Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-31 (SHA-256 e9f0df2cb61beb38c39cfe0f5f0d001e522eeebb23b5fb72868c1722ee7fb219). Author-hosted HTML headed "Souls in Silicon by Frederik Pohl & Hans Moravec OMNI November 1993 pp. 66-76". No capture located; the magazine pages were not inspected. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-31 Language English (en) Attribution Frederik Pohl, Hans Moravec, “Souls in Silicon”, 1993-11. 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 (35 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. 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. OMNI, November 1993.
Record ID ht-w03-pohl-moravec-1993-souls-in-silicon