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* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'':
** Tarvek uploads his sister's mind into a [[Ridiculously Human Robot|Ridiculously Human Clank]] almost by accident: he builds it to serve as her prosthesis after she's injured, and it doesn't notice when she dies. Later, the same clank ends up housing the mind of [[Big Bad|The Other]].
** This [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100407 was] one of the things in which lady Lucrezia's used to ''
** Unsurprisingly, some mad scientists provide this service to pay for the equipment. One of the presumably happy customers is [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20151012 Madame Desmana]. There are some known issues, however - including "[[Transhuman Treachery|post-vital personality drift]]".
** Albia (presumably following the [[God-Emperor|Ancient God-Queens]] who taught her) has an external storage for her memories — an unmodified human brain doesn't have capacity for millennia long life, but losing memories is not a good idea either. Of course, swapping out "unimportant" memory fragments also means some potentially important details are unavailable for comparison with the new observations, thus while she retains her current personality and relatively recent affairs, she can be blindsided by something she would still know if expected it to be relevant. On-screen, she let a guest query her old memories on an old mystery as a little friendly favour and was leisurely monitoring this when suddenly recognized a top level threat about two decades after seeing it again.
* A Major [[McGuffin]] of the Hob arc in ''[[Dresden Codak]]''.
* In ''[[Unity]]'', the main character's neural patterns had been uploaded into a powerful computer. {{spoiler|This simulation eventually (and accidentally) takes over the ship - for the better.}}
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* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', this is how Dirk created his auto-responder. It was apparently meant to [[Mundane Utility|respond to instant messages when Dirk himself wasn't at the computer]], though it's developed beyond that. It's treated as a character in its own right, superficially similar to Dirk but with its own quirks and eccentricities.
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' has this developed several times.
** There's now a way to backup/restore (or run as AI, or edit) someone's brain using [[nanomachines]], created as a part of an immortality project. One of the lead researchers ran off and uploaded his mind into a medical suite (which means he had the system installed, thus finality of his apparent death might be greatly exaggerated). Later this method was
** It turns out that {{spoiler|the Schuul}} can do much the same with bodies of other species (such as humans), probably artificially grown, when they want to snoop around a little.
** A few millions of years ago, after Bradicor implementation of [[The Ageless|biological immortality]] combined with their brain architecture led to [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2007-09-02 some messy problems]. Most chose the uploading as a solution. Their next war was implied to be something like ''[[Ubik]]'', but with access to weapons capable of destroying their mainframes. Thus when the smoke cleared, the only Bradicors left were those few who chose to retain their bodies and tweak their new brains into [[The Fog of Ages|semi-senility]] instead. Oh, and {{spoiler|one brainwashed [[Super Soldier]] in [[Sealed Evil in a Can|storage]]}}, but since he went [[Ax Crazy]] upon awakening, they subdued and transformed him in their likeness too.
** The All-Star is an ancient artifact specifically built as a huge (it's a dedicated [[Dyson Sphere]]) network for uploaded sophonts. [[Hidden Elf Village|The place is secret]], thus they forcibly upload those who discover them to keep it this way, but otherwise are all for protecting the agency of sapience. At least after [https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-24 that one time].
{{quote|'''Putzho''' (a newcomer given the whole picture as a part of the orientation/interview): ''Hey''. You're only at 44% capacity. You could pull ''everybody else'' in the Galaxy in here and not tick past 45%.
'''Ulaque''': We tried that once. As raptures go, it was unacceptably lossy. }}
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