Transhumanism Without Mind Uploading and Immortality

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Author(s): Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University, Rome, Italy)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 8
Source title: Analyzing Future Applications of AI, Sensors, and Robotics in Society
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Thomas Heinrich Musiolik (Berlin University of the Arts, Germany)and Adrian David Cheok (Professional University of Information and Management for Innovation, iUniversity, Tokyo, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3499-1.ch017

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence / Human Aspects of Technology / Information Science Reference / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Elon Musk regularly advertises for the simulation argument, stressing that he regards it as highly likely that we live in a computer simulation. However, it must be noted that the argument can be reconstructed such that its line of thought can be rationally grasped. This, however, does not necessarily mean that it is a plausible argument. The argument presupposes the anthropology that human beings can be uploaded onto a hard drive, which is based upon the view that humans are nothing like a software running on our body which serves as our hardware. It is this understanding of the human species which has been employed by many transhumanists who stress that immortality is near. The author will explain the line of thought underlining the simulation argument while they will, at the same time, explain that it is neither highly likely that we live in a computer simulation, nor that we can upload our personalities onto a computer, and even if this was possible, it would not enable us to become immortal.

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