"Before pressing to Numenta’s remarkable (and likely correct) approach to general AI at an IBM talk (YouTube video), let’s consider the question of how much you and I are already uploaded and super intelligent, and how it might feel like to upload. I proceed in three parts: 1. A quick review of how we're already partly uploaded and very smart; 2. An small, excerpted fictional narrative of a man and a woman uploading in the near term future; 3. Some optional notes for mathematicians and physicists to encourage discussion of Numenta's presentation at IBM." - Sean McBride

"I myself can’t exactly tell you how much of my mind resides in my cranium or in the clouds. Fidelity and USAA run my trading rules throughout the trading day while I subconsciously pick my way through city traffic absorbing updates on actionable geopolitical tensions, epidemics, natural disasters, science and technology news, planning out my workday and evening activities with a family of two schoolchildren, a wife, and a dog according to Google Now—okay Google?" - Sean McBride

"In 1990, my cloud-brain resided in the technical library and knowledge base of my peers at the Air Force Research Laboratory Shiva Star facility. Now my cloud-brain resides in my pocket and in every room at both work and in my house tying me to global contacts, conversations, and repositories of knowledge, simultaneously arming me with free or nearly free tools like R, Octave, or Wolfram Alpha that run multitudes of algorithms for me as if I were cloned many times over, each being many times better than the kid with the pencil, paper, calculator, and spreadsheet of twenty-five years ago. I know not where my brain starts or ends." - Sean McBride