Mind Uploading | Reason and Meaning

My most recent post, Living in a Computer Simulation, elicited some insightful comments from a reader skeptical of the possibility of mind uploading. Here is his argument with my own brief response to it below.

My comment concerns a reductive physicalist theory of the mind, which is the view that all mental states and properties of the mind will eventually be explained by scientific accounts of physiological processes and states Continue reading The Impossibility of Mind Uploading

Many scientists believe that we will soon be able to preserve our consciousness indefinitely. There are a number ofscenariosby which this might be accomplished, but so-called mind uploading is one of the most prominent. Mind uploading refers to a hypothetical process of copying the contents of a consciousness from a brain to a computational device. Continue reading Living In A Computer Simulation

John Searle (1932 ) is currently the Slusser Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from Oxford University. He is a prolific author and one of the most important living philosophers. Continue reading John Searles Critique of Ray Kurzweil

Many scientists believe that we will soon be able to preserve our consciousness indefinitely. There are a number ofscenariosby which this might be accomplished, but so-called mind uploading is one of the most prominent. Continue reading What Will Life Be Like Inside A Computer?

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Mind Uploading | Reason and Meaning