CONSCIOUS COMPUTERS. “Eminent computer scientists and neuroscientists have predicted that specially programmed computers will be capable of thought and even attain consciousness, including Koch and Tononi, Douglas Hofstadter, Jeff Hawkins, Marvin Minsky, Randal A. Koene, and Rodolfo Llinas. Such a machine intelligence capability might provide a computational substrate necessary for uploading.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading