the upload meme in sf - first use?

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 22:09:30 MDT

And speaking of the upload meme, it occurred to me that the first novel
with an explicit use of general mind uploading to an artificial substrate
might be my 1980 sf novel THE DREAMING DRAGONS (now with the preferred
title THE DREAMING), when it turns out there's a sort of Akashic records
device, a `gluon lattice denser than neutronium', that has been
realtime-archiving all human minds since we first evolved. Can anyone think
of earlier uses in sf of this idea? (I wouldn't be surprised if Lem or
Stapledon or Wells did so decades ahead of me.)

Damien Broderick

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