what is a book? Doesn't it amount to uploading one's thoughts onto the worldwide booknet? A mind is identified with its contents (ideas, weltanschauungs) and not with its function as a information processor, oui? As a thinker I'm no different from you, yourself one; however, I'm an agnostic, that's what defines me in the theological universe and you maybe a theist and that's who you are. A person's mind is the unique set of thoughts (concepts, ideas, other information) that they possess and so can be extracted, stored, accessed by a computer and that's, in my humble opinion, what mind uploading is essentially. :grin: — Agent Smith
I question this.
If I write down all my concepts, ideas, other information in a book, is that book now my mind? Is not the information processor also required to be added to the book, in order to even begin to consider it as a mind? — PhilosophyRunner
This is error in thinking. No, it could not be done because perception doesn't happen only in the brain -- but through other organs as well. The brain is not a depository of a complete picture or story that one could extract and upload somewhere. Your amputated arm would itch still. The roughness of a surface doesn't reside in the brain, but in the touch -- the fingers bring alive the sensation of roughness, and once you're not touching that surface anymore, the brain won't retain the roughness. We have memory of how a sandpaper feels, true, but that memory would not translate, if you tried to extract roughness through the brain, it would not translate into "roughness"."Mind uploading, also known as whole brain emulation (WBE), is the theoretical futuristic process of scanning a physical structure of the brain accurately enough to create an emulation of the mental state (including long-term memory and "self") and transferring or copying it to a computer in a digital form." — Haglund
It's a non-starter because it assumes 'substance dualism' which is inconsistent with both the 'principle of causal closure' and 'conservation laws'. I think a more plausible conjecture is a brain transplant into a synthetic body or machine-system.So what to think of the conjecture about mind uploading? — Haglund
It's a non-starter because it assumes 'substance dualism' which is inconsistent with both the principle of causal closure and conservation laws. I think a more plausible conjecture is brain transplantation into a synthetic body or machine-system — 180 Proof
I can conceive of a synthetic mind-substrate extension of the organic mind-substrate whereby the continuity of self-aware personal identity (i.e. "consciousness") is, in effect, transferred from the latter to the former without being interrupted by – prior to – irreversible organic mind-substrate (brain)-death. — 180 Proof
In what format are they thinking of uploading the mind? .docx? or .exe? .jpg? — L'éléphant
Furthermore ...
I can conceive of a synthetic mind-substrate extension of the organic mind-substrate whereby the continuity of self-aware personal identity (i.e. "consciousness") is, in effect, transferred from the latter to the former without being interrupted by – prior to – irreversible organic mind-substrate (brain)-death.
— 180 Proof — 180 Proof
Well, for a start, we can tell him to fuck off :smirk: ...What if we succeed and someone comes up to us and says "Eternal life...not what you think!"? :chin: — Agent Smith
[ ... ] If and when "immortality" is technologically achieved, let's hope it comes with an easy-to-flip, easy-to-reach (though secret, or subjective / interior) off-switch. — 180 Proof
I can't believe that someone in here could ask such a question! :gasp:Can minds be uploaded in computers? — Haglund
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