There is another possibility. Why not work on brain implants and BCIs (brain–computer interfaces)? Such could be used to augment and add various capabilities and should be much easier to achieve than uploading. People are already working on it:
An iPlant is a brain implant that is technically no different from today’s deep brain stimulation implants, but which has not yet been developed for human use. Fully implemented, the implant would electronically regulate monoamines and the reward system in the brain, thus giving its user increased control over his or her motivation, mood, learning and creativity.
I think the short answer is that implants make little sense in the short term. There’s a section on this in Redesigning Humans—and I cover it in: Against cyborgs. Around the same time this kind of thing becomes plausible, the human brain’s sell-by date comes along. Fyborgs, rather than cyborgs.
There is another possibility. Why not work on brain implants and BCIs (brain–computer interfaces)? Such could be used to augment and add various capabilities and should be much easier to achieve than uploading. People are already working on it:
I think the short answer is that implants make little sense in the short term. There’s a section on this in Redesigning Humans—and I cover it in: Against cyborgs. Around the same time this kind of thing becomes plausible, the human brain’s sell-by date comes along. Fyborgs, rather than cyborgs.