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Potential problems with uploading your mind to a computer

Posted by / January 17, 2018

There was a Black Mirror episode in which elderly people plugged into a virtual world much like The Matrix. At the end of the episode, some elderly people choose to permanently upload their consciousnesses into the virtual world. Other bits of pop culture have examined this––Transcendence, for example. This video examines some of the philosophical dilemmas of mind-uploading. Many of those questions revolve around how you define consciousness. In other words, is the being in the computer conscious? And if so, what happens then?

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More interesting philosophy.

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