Reddit reviews A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading

http://www.brainpreservation.org/links/

and as a bonus

https://www.amazon.com/Taxonomy-Metaphysics-Mind-Uploading-Keith-Wiley/dp/0692279849

I think I win

With all due respect current cryonics methods are just as deluded as pill-popping. I'm on the board of The Brain Preservation Foundation. We award motivational cash prizes (like X-Prizes) to advance new methods of brain preservation. In 2016 and 2018 we awarded our small and large mammal prizes for preservation of a rabbit and pig brain using new methods that passed peer-reviewed rigorous verification. The methods used by existing cryonics companies are almost certainly killing you. At the least, they have not passed, nor really submitted to, third-party, objective, or peer-reviewed verification. I don't mean to rain on cryonicists' parade, but I'm scientific and practical about the realities involved.


Here's my article following the large mammal prize:

http://www.brainpreservation.org/implications-of-the-bpf-large-mammal-brain-preservation-prize/


I'm also the author of A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading btw.


Cheers!

Keith I have just read deeper and seen that you have published a book on this subject https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0692279849/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
I have just ordered a copy of it I will read it as soon as it arrives to gain a deeper understanding of your position.
Steve

Here you go!

In reading an excellent thesis on Mind Uploading (https://www.amazon.com/Taxonomy-Metaphysics-Mind-Uploading-Keith-Wiley/dp/0692279849/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1501597553&sr=1-1&keywords=mind+uploading), there was an attempt to streamline arguments for and against the possibilities of mind uploading and full brain emulation. The concept that stuck out to me, and that creates a solid counterargument to the one presented in this article, is the idea of a future procedure wherein nanobots are deployed your brain, and bit by bit, replace the original biological structure with a synthetic structure immune to breakdown/degeneration. This cuts out the need for two brains to be existing at the same time/one after the other.

>If the computer copy of their mind will be destroyed, they would still exist. Thus, the computer copy of their mind is not actually them--rather, it's merely an exact copy of them.

At the exact time that the mind is copied, then there are two of the minds in the universe.

There's no logical reasons why there can't be two or more exact same minds existing at the same time. "You" exist in both of those states. This is part of the multiverse interpretation of quantum physics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse. So your use of the word "thus" does not make sense.

From then on, the two identities branch, and they will never be the same, because of the path dependence of mind states.

I recommend that book first because it is shorter, but there is also a book available: https://www.amazon.com/Taxonomy-Metaphysics-Mind-Uploading-Keith-Wiley/dp/0692279849

>Also, I'll take a look at that article. Thanks for sharing it with me!

Sure thing. =)