X-Message-Number: 32862
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:23:12 +0200
Subject: Uploading
From: Eivind Berge <>

Uploading never particularly appealed to me, but after reading Mark
Gubrud's article "Why Transhumanism Won't Work" and the comments, I am
actually more inclined to believe it might work after all as survival
(but I still wouldn't want it except as a last resort). Gubrud
apparently fails to understand some very basic philosophical concepts,
so it's hard to take him seriously. I had to read the comments to
appreciate how bad his piece really is, and Gubrud doesn't do a good
job defending it, either. Max More pointed out he can't tell dualism
from functionalism, for one thing, and I especially liked the comments
of Philippe Verdoux, who wrote a detailed response:

Why "Why Transhumanism Won't Work" Won't Work

http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/verdoux20100624/

I don't know much philosophy either, but then I don't make bombastic
claims about it. If Gubrud's piece is the best anyone can do to argue
against uploading, it seems to me the matter is no closer to being
settled.

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