Re: Arguments against uploading

2013-05-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
Nice. It could be heavier on support on the points, but not bad for a superficial pop-sci treatment. My comments: It’s a mistake to think of this debate in terms of having insufficient understanding or technology to simulate consciousness. The point is that we already have sufficient

Re: Arguments against uploading

2013-05-02 Thread Jason Resch
The arguments are not so much arguments, but a collection of dubious assumptions. His first argument is that the brain is not computable, which requires assuming the brain does not operate according to known physics, as all known physics is computable. The second and third objections are that we

Re: Arguments against uploading

2013-05-02 Thread Craig Weinberg
On Thursday, May 2, 2013 3:08:17 PM UTC-4, Jason wrote: The arguments are not so much arguments, but a collection of dubious assumptions. His first argument is that the brain is not computable, which requires assuming the brain does not operate according to known physics, as all known

Re: Arguments against uploading

2013-05-02 Thread John Clark
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Stephen P. King stephe...@charter.netwrote: http://io9.com/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498 1) Brain functions are not computable because* *most of its important features are the result of unpredictable, nonlinear interactions

Arguments against uploading

2013-05-01 Thread Stephen P. King
http://io9.com/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498 -- Onward! Stephen I apologize in advance for the gross errors that this post and all of my posts will contain. ;-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List