Will Uploaded Minds in Machines be Alive?

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/rothblatt20091226/

by r11t • 17 years ago

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jacquesm3• 17 years ago

That makes the very large assumption that such a thing will be possible in the first place, which is by no means a certainty.

thwarted• 17 years ago

Do all base assumptions need to be met in order to exercise a thought experiment? Sometimes it's best to explore these philosophical questions before answering them is forced upon us.

rbanffy6• 17 years ago

Since there are no physical impossibilities involved, it's just a question of time until it is possible to completely acquire and simulate an organic brain on a computer model.

jacquesm3• 17 years ago

How much time though ?

It's only a matter of time before we make contact with an alien civilization. But that doesn't mean we need to go and wonder overly long about how we'd dress for the occasion, it is simply too far off for that.

What kind of an upper limit would you put on this kind of thing becoming a reality?

scott_s4• 17 years ago

We still don't know what consciousness is. So I think it's naive to state that it's "just a question of time" before we can simulate it.

pwmanagerdied• 17 years ago

Though the topic is interesting, this article is rambling and senseless. For example it states that life, by reducing local entropy, violates the second laws of thermodynamics.

Will Uploaded Minds in Machines be Alive?

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