2012
DOI: 10.1142/s1793843012400100
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My Brain, My Mind, and I: Some Philosophical Assumptions of Mind-Uploading

Abstract: The progressing cyborgization of the human body reaches its completion point when the entire body can be replaced by uploading individual minds to a less vulnerable and limited substrate, thus achieving "digital immortality" for the uploaded self. The paper questions the philosophical assumptions that are being made when mind-uploading is thought a realistic possibility. I will argue that we have little reason to suppose that an exact functional copy of the brain will actually produce similar phenomenological … Show more

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“…Turning human minds into a digital state would end biological death altogether, because a digital version of our mind that exists on a substrate such as a computer would not be subject to death. Digitalization of minds (or mind-uploading, as it is sometimes referred to) is still entirely speculative and it might not even work in principle [7]. There are currently no realistic prospects for achieving mind digitalization.…”
Section: Scenarios For Ending Natural Deathmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Turning human minds into a digital state would end biological death altogether, because a digital version of our mind that exists on a substrate such as a computer would not be subject to death. Digitalization of minds (or mind-uploading, as it is sometimes referred to) is still entirely speculative and it might not even work in principle [7]. There are currently no realistic prospects for achieving mind digitalization.…”
Section: Scenarios For Ending Natural Deathmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…38 Sita a Springfield, in Virginia, l'organizzazione ha come attività principale la gestione dell'MPrize -noto anche come Methuselah Mouse Prize, "Premio Topo Matusalemme" -, un premio attribuito a chi fornisca un contributo sostanziale alla lotta al processo d'invecchiamento. Fondata nel 2000 da Aubrey De Grey e David Gobel, la Methuselah Foundation -letteralmente, Fondazione Matusalemme -è un'organizzazione no profit che mira a mettere a punto metodi per estendere, e di molto, la durata della vita umana.…”
Section: Viaggio Nella Galassia Transumanistaunclassified
“…38 Entro il 2030 avremo finito di retro-ingegnerizzare il cervello umano e l'intelligenza non-biologica si fonderà con i nostri cervelli biologici -ottimista come sempre, il nostro Kurzweil. Per l'inventore e futurologo nei prossimi decenni i sistemi fisici e mentali del nostro corpo subiranno un radicale aggiornamento; useremo nano-robot per potenziare e infine rimpiazzare i nostri organi.…”
Section: La Carne Del Futurounclassified
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