Slashdot had an article yesterday about downloading your brain.
It reminded me of an essay called Staring into the Singularity.
The essay talks about what happens when we develop an AI that is capable of improving itself, by designing and implementing it's own software and hardware. Once this happens, thanks to ever-increasing hardware speed the work that the AI is capable of doing in a given timeframe rises asymptotically to infinity in a short period of time.
At this point the essay proposes that one by one the neurons in your brain can be replaced by a wireless device that performs the actual processing. The physical neuron will not be shut down until the inputs and outputs are modelled exactly by the computer. This way, your conscious is shifted into a computer seamlessly, and there is never two copies of you running at any point (which is one of the major issues raised in the Slashdot article).
It's a thought-provoking read.
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