Processes in which a sophont incrementally transfers eir consciousness into a different, faster substrate | |
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A patient undergoing an early version of Gradual Uploading. This procedure, developed in the Jovian League, allows the partient to be conscious throughout, minimized the abruptness of the conversion to virtual space and preserving a sense of continuous existence. Before this technique was developed, uploading was performed while the patient was unconscious, or even post-mortem. |
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