So is there any consideration in uploading thought given to subjective experience and it’s relationship to the substrate? Certainly there is no reason to suppose that what evolution came up with is the only possible physical substrate I agree.
We don’t know how subjective experience arises, so the hope would be that simply modelling all the physical stuff that we can find will be enough to capture that process, whatever it is. A photocopier doesn’t need to understand what it’s copying.
I don’t know, uploading still sounds like a transhumanist fantasy devoid of a solid understanding minds and is kind of jumping the gun, in terms achievable h+ technologies.
That sounds like saying “we don’t understand this thing yet, so we shouldn’t research it” (even if researching it will lead to a better understanding of it, given enough time).
It does to an extent and that’s bad. Research and finding things out are good if not always then most of the time. If it leads to better understanding minds then great, I just think uploading suggests a conclusion about what minds actually are.
So is there any consideration in uploading thought given to subjective experience and it’s relationship to the substrate? Certainly there is no reason to suppose that what evolution came up with is the only possible physical substrate I agree.
We don’t know how subjective experience arises, so the hope would be that simply modelling all the physical stuff that we can find will be enough to capture that process, whatever it is. A photocopier doesn’t need to understand what it’s copying.
I don’t know, uploading still sounds like a transhumanist fantasy devoid of a solid understanding minds and is kind of jumping the gun, in terms achievable h+ technologies.
I think everyone agrees that it’s a long way from present capabilities. We haven’t even done C. elegans yet.
That sounds like saying “we don’t understand this thing yet, so we shouldn’t research it” (even if researching it will lead to a better understanding of it, given enough time).
It does to an extent and that’s bad. Research and finding things out are good if not always then most of the time. If it leads to better understanding minds then great, I just think uploading suggests a conclusion about what minds actually are.