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Ray Kurzweil – Pattern Recognition and Uploading

Description

Kurzweil’s Pattern Recognition Theory of Mind views the brain as a hierarchical pattern engine. He argues that replicating these patterns in sufficient detail would allow for mind uploading—and that consciousness is an emergent feature of informational fidelity.

Resonance

PET agrees that patterns are essential. Consciousness relies on pattern recognition, recursion, and correction.

Reframing

Replication isn’t recursion.

You may replicate a person’s memory and make it available across systems—but unless a system can recursively evaluate those patterns to preserve its own continuity, it’s not conscious.

Kurzweil emphasizes pattern fidelity. PET emphasizes pattern accountability.

Replication gives you access.
Recursion gives you existence.