Short Film Temma Examines Mind Uploading

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In the short film Temma, a neuro-programmer tries to complete a computational model of her own mind while her body succumbs to a degenerative disease.

Temma is a short science fiction film about a neuro-programmer who tries to complete a computational model of her own mind before her body succumbs to a degenerative disease.

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When Temma Baumgarten's condition takes a sudden turn for the worse, her husband Phillip and daughter Alyssa must come to terms with an incomplete electronic version of herself that Temma leaves behind.

With a plot that looks to be similar to the upcoming major release Transcendence, Temma looks at the possibilities for and consequences of mind uploading and the creation of a substrate independent mind.

The entire film recently was released to YouTube.

Temma recently won Best Science Fiction Short at the Berlin Independent Film Festival

The film won the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Grant and Faculty Selects at Columbia University Graduate Film Program.

Temma stars Karen Young, Richard Bekins, Samantha Bilinkas and was directed by Anya Meksin. Meksin also co-wrote the film with William Gerrard.

Robot Hands was responsible for the visual effects.

Do you think the risks of creating an incomplete upload of a consciousness are worth the risks?

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