I'm going to stick with 'robot' - in this case, consciousness uploading takes the form that you described; a massive archive of recordings, images, and information loaded into the android's memory banks onto a blank slate, to where it thinks it is the next incarnation of Edison and acts like he would according to its data, so even if it's not Edison himself, it's functionally identical.<br/><br/>Though now I'm tempted to play Teddy Roosevelt of Tales From The Bully Pulpit (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_From_the_Bully_Pulpit) fame. Edisonbot is still more tempting though.