> Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body established a dualistic model of mind and matter that still hampers our thinking today. Th

> Plato’s argument that the soul could survive the death of the body established a dualistic model of mind and matter that still hampers our thinking today. That is quite possibly going to be mainstream technology one fine day! We have machines that are beginning to vaguely grope toward having some kind of soul, and we can easily get their state to survive the replacement of their hardware. The intuition is correct that there is a dualism there. The mind is separate from the implementation substrate on which it operates and we can contemplate preserving and migrating it.