Continuum of consciousness: Mind uploading and resurrection of human consciousness. Is there a place for physics, neuroscience and computers?
arXiv Preprint Archive October 12, 2007 V. Astakhov
A thought experiment uses information geometry to model mind uploading, the hypothetical transfer of core mental functions from a human brain to an artificial environment. The toy mind is represented as a geometrical shape on an information manifold, and this shape can be given a distributed holographic representation. The process of creating that holographic representation provides a strategy for migrating the mind between original and artificial environments. The interface between brain and environment is modeled as an entropy flow, a geometrical flow on the information manifold analogous to holographic recording. Reconstruction of the mind is modeled by non-local Hamiltonians on the manifold.