Mind upload
Copying a mind into a software substrate, and everything that follows from copying.
What it commits you to
A mind upload raises identity, consent and rights questions simultaneously, because it creates a second claimant to one history. Bostrom and Sandberg's roadmap treats it as an engineering programme; most philosophers treat it as an identity problem wearing engineering clothes. The duplication case is the hard one, and no proposal has dissolved it.
Which realms lean on this
Philosophy carries the arguments the other four kinds are downstream of — what an agent is, what a person owes, what a rule is for.
philosophy · 8 realms — The Care Weft, The Contractual Court, The Existential Wilds, The Kantian Citadel, The Longview Foundry, The Middle Kingdom, The Pragmatic Wharf, The Sangha Terraces.
Canon that discusses this
See also
Personal identity
philosophyWhat makes a person at one time the same person at another.
No-self
philosophyThe Buddhist analysis denying that a person has a fixed, independent essence.
Moral status
ethicsThe property of counting as a party that can be owed something and can be wronged.
Moral patient
ethicsAn entity that can be benefited or harmed but is not a moral agent.