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Re:No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain by njarboe on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:08PM (#24901429)
Neal Stephenson wrote a science fiction novel "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell" that came out in 2019 whose plot is about the uploading of people into computer systems. It covers a range of ideas and possibilities with plot lines outside and inside of the computer system. Highly recommended if you are interested in thinking about this topic in more detail. Also a pretty fun read. I still have the last bit of the book to finish.
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Re:No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain by blacksmith_tb on Monday October 26, 2020 @07:50PM (#24902954)
An even more hellish vision is Iain Banks' _Surface Detail_ [1] where some civilizations upload the consciousnesses of thousands of their citizens into simulations that make them suffer (at least there are counterexamples that upload themselves into 'heaven').

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Detail

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Re:No Implants Needed for Precise Control Deep into the Brain by mrspeaker on Monday October 26, 2020 @05:53PM (#24901939)
An oft-covered topic in science fiction! My favourite take on it is Permutation City by Greg Egan... it's from 1994, but reads like it was written yesterday!
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