# Uploading your brain (digital consciousness)

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-your-brain-digital-consciousness/277295>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 30, 2004, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-your-brain-digital-consciousness/277295 "2004-11-30T06:23:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![SentientMeat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SentientMeat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SentientMeat)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2004, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/uploading-your-brain-digital-consciousness/277295/21 "2004-12-01T11:18:41Z")

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Yes, **Mange** , it is mere poetic license: “I” am a string of memories, and _whenever_ that string bifurcates, _neither_ branch is automatically “me”.

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