Jeremiah John’s Reviews > To Be a Machine : Adventures Among Cyborgs, Utopians, Hackers, and the Futurists Solving the Modest Problem of Death > Status Update

Quote: "At the root of this concept of whole brain emulation, and of transhumanism itself as a movement or an ideology or a theory, was, I realized, the sense of ourselves as trapped in the wrong sort of stuff, constrained by the material of our presence in the world. To talk of acheiving a "more suitable computational substrate" only made sense if you thought of yourself as a computer to begin with.