UPLOADS, FAXES, AND YOU

Author:

Goldwater Jonah

Abstract

Abstract Could a person or mind be uploaded—transmitted to a computer or network—and thereby survive bodily death? I argue “mind uploading” is possible only if a mind is an abstract object rather than a concrete particular. Two implications are notable. One, if someone can be uploaded someone can be multiply-instantiated, such that there could be as many instances of a person as copies of a book. Second, mind uploading’s possibility is incompatible with the leading theories of personal identity, insofar as these assume the mind is a concrete particular. Moreover, because David Chalmers (2010; 2012; 2014) defends mind uploading without construing minds as abstract, I show Chalmers’ argument to be unsound.

Publisher

JSTOR

Subject

Philosophy

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