The “total scan” argument, when presented to further a physicalist stance (“surely if we were to scan you using some fantasy tech X we would get an exact copy o

The “total scan” argument, when presented to further a physicalist stance (“surely if we were to scan you using some fantasy tech X we would get an exact copy of you, including any consciousness if it exists, and to deny that is to believe in ghosts”), is unconvincing on at least two counts: 1) fantasy tech illustrating axiomatic belief in particular physical models that are in vogue today but will not hold in the long run (Heisenberg limit? who is she?); and 2) believing that the only alternative to monistic materialism is body-soul dualism, which is depressingly common among STEM folk philosophical naïveté. The most obvious objection is that perceived time-space is a map of some fundamentally inaccessible to us territory, that modern physical models on which the argument depends are likely only covering (imperfectly) a minuscule part of that territory, and that the map may never be fully precise and complete regardless of technology (since a map that is fully precise and complete is the territory).