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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by Veedrac on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @08:42PM (#16581290)
The trivial dismissal of most of these problems is to realize that whatever features we have must have evolved, and it would be a statistical miracle for the substrate that evolution discovered to just happen to be uniquely capable of dualism.
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Re:A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “1... by AgentME on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @09:44PM (#16581583)
Also, does every animal with a brain have a dualist mind out there too? What's the limit? Does a worm with a few hundred neurons have a non-physical mind connection? Does your digestive system with its millions of neurons have its own non-physical mind out there too?
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