RE: Is it possible to upload our minds into a computer or in engineered living tissue?
October 21, 2015 at 7:25 am
PREDICTIONS CHECKPOINT
I'm not doing too badly, so-far. Come on, Dualists! Where are ya?!
(October 13, 2015 at 9:21 am)Ben Davis Wrote: *predicts stages of this thread
1. The neurologists will say "Yes, it's technically plausible that one day the technology could exist..." Check
2. The philosophers will ask "Ahh, yes... but would it still be You?!". Check
3. The materialists will say "No, it wouldn't be You as You would have ceased to exist. Instead it would be You2.". Check
4. The technologists will say "We could program You2 to think it's you and behave as if there's been no discontinuity between existences.". Check
5. The dualists will say "Yes, it would be You as it would replicate the mechanism through which You interact with this reality."
6. The pragmatists will say "This is all redundant speculation." Check
7. A certain someone will chime-in "Why would our consciousness die when as we can see in nature nothing die?
8. Someone will throw something
9. A moderator will say "Stop that now, you two!"
10. People will stop reading and the thread will die.
11. Someone will create an exact copy of the thread, post it without the deletion of the original thread and use it as evidence of the accuracy of prediction 3.
I'm not doing too badly, so-far. Come on, Dualists! Where are ya?!
Sum ergo sum
