Moravecism, n. after Hans Moravec, author of Mind Children: the belief that digitizing the contents of the brains of human beings, moving the resulting database to cyberspace, and discarding their bodies is a desirable course of action.
A radical vision of the human future.
Moravecism describes the idea that human consciousness can be transferred into digital form and that life in cyberspace could replace life in the physical body.
It is one of the most extreme expressions of techno-futurist thinking, raising deep questions about identity, humanity, embodiment, and what it truly means to be alive.
Whether seen as progress, fantasy, or warning, Moravecism forces us to confront a growing cultural belief that the human body is disposable and that data may one day be treated as the true self.
