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Originally Posted by Save Us Sutter
Yeah how great would it be to wake up in the morning and instead of seeing your beautiful wife next to you, all you get is an error screen!?
I don't necessarily believe it will ever be possible (to upload) but I do believe that when it comes down to it, we're nothing but organic computers. Most human traits (emotion, motivation, the "self", heck even religion) we can explain (albeit not fully... yet) through neuroscience. The only thing left it would appear is consciousness, which I believe is tied into the development of language.
If we can ever get a grasp on what makes us "think" then we're well on our way to creating robots that can do everything we can. Except, as you pointed out, the technology has a long way to go to get to that point.
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I read an interesting article a while back about a neuroscience research project in which they were monitoring brain activity during states of religious excitement. They discovered that the part of the brain that gets hyper-active in a state of religious ecstasy is the same as the part of brain that shows increased levels of activity while high on drugs. Maybe Carlos Castenada was onto something.