It seems to me more like an alternative to medical procedures. I suppose that if we developed the ability to make new brains and load minds into them, then upload+download would come to be considered a medical procedure—but that seems rather unlikely ever to happen.
Mind uploading might qualify if it becomes, say, an emergency medical procedure.
It seems to me more like an alternative to medical procedures. I suppose that if we developed the ability to make new brains and load minds into them, then upload+download would come to be considered a medical procedure—but that seems rather unlikely ever to happen.