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There is no argument you can make that "an uploaded mind isn't you" which doesn't apply equally well to what happens when someone goes to sleep at night and wak
by Analemma_ 6y ago
There is no argument you can make that "an uploaded mind isn't you" which doesn't apply equally well to what happens when someone goes to sleep at night and wakes up the next morning. And somehow we don't worry about that.
- jodrellblank 6y agoSleep isn't death, or a pause button; exter-conscious brain activity is still you. Sleeping doesn't generate petabytes of data elsewhere in space. Sleeping doesn't have a mechanical "scanning" process which takes time to read across a brain. Sleeping doesn't have a mechanical scanning process with measurement errors, approximations and simplifications. Sleeping doesn't abruptly disconnect trillions of body cells. Uploading doesn't use biology or Penrose and Hameroff's microtubules. Uploading doesn't have a physical embodiement. Uploading runs a simulation. Uploading is a different place in space with a wildly different configuration of matter and energy. Consciousness has not been proven to be a) purely information processing or b) possible on an electronic Von Neumann state machine. (I'm not saying it isn't, I'm saying "of course it is, what else could it be?" isn't proof - especially when a popular part of uploading arguments is the ability to simulate arbitrary things or fake parts of the experience to the point where you won't notice anything is wrong; taking a position where simulations can be OK because we can do that to make them be OK, but that can't be happening right now because nothing seems wrong, is weird). You don't have to believe in a soul, quantum woo, or human exceptionalism to observe that part of the universe doing something and part of the universe doing something which looks to humans like doing something else, are different.