Transcendence: The Disinformation Encyclopedia of Transhumanism and the Singularity by Sirius R.U. & Cornell Jay

Author:Sirius, R.U. & Cornell, Jay [Sirius, R.U.]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9781609259594
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser
Published: 2015-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

By the time mind uploading is generally available, perhaps people will have forgotten a time when a singular self was “normal.” They will be used to multiple viewpoints, their brains processing information coming not only from their local surroundings, but also from the remote sensors and cyberspaces they are simultaneously linked to. They will have already become familiar with mental concepts migrating from the brain to spawn digital intermediaries within the clouds of smart dust that surround them. Every idea, each inspiration, would give birth to software lifeforms introspecting from many different perspectives before integrating the results of their considerations with the primary consciousness that spawned them.

Know Your Uploaded Rights

Roz Kaveney: Before we start uploading ourselves, people need to possess intellectual property in themselves. The uploaded need legal personhood.

Don't Get Hacked

Roz Kaveney: It is easy to brainwash the embodied, and the uploaded would likely be even more vulnerable. We have to establish an ethic of the absolute impermissibility of harming a person's autonomy by harming their own value to themselves. It is an assault. Martine Rothblatt: “Minds are fragile—and to hit someone in the face is almost better than to put a fist through the fragile web of a personality.”

Skeptic

Charles Stross (interviewed by R.U. Sirius and Paul McEnery): Mind uploading would be a fine thing, but I'm not convinced what you'd get at the end of it would be even remotely human.

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