2026-07-05 20:49 UTC
Beliefs in mind uploading and mechanical immortality are very common within the American tech bro scene. But these are absurd delusions that are not at all supported by biology.
We just published a comprehensive rebuttal of this fantasy by biologist and philosopher @yoginho@spore.social
https://plus.flux.community/p/the-myth-of-mind-uploading
#philosophy #ai #biology #microbiology
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@michaelgemar@cosocial.ca 2026-07-07 04:11
@discoverflux@masto.ai @Npars01@mstdn.social @yoginho@spore.social And if mind uploading *was* possible, and an individual mind could be copied and replicated and instantiated simultaneously, and digital representations of various minds could be merged, then the whole notion of personal identity is gone. An uploaded mind is not a “backup” of you, but instead the destruction of any notion of individual “youness”.
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@woo@fosstodon.org 2026-07-07 10:04
@discoverflux@masto.ai @yoginho@spore.social You'd think the fact that it's so difficult to take a consistent backup of an open relational database without locking would be a clue. You might think they aren't actually very 'technical' at all; just massive bluffers.