{"id":158846,"date":"2023-02-23T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/ben-goertzel-countering-objections-to-mind-uploading"},"modified":"2023-02-23T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T23:24:22","slug":"ben-goertzel-countering-objections-to-mind-uploading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/ben-goertzel-countering-objections-to-mind-uploading","title":{"rendered":"Ben Goertzel \u2014 Countering Objections to Mind Uploading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ben Goertzel - Countering Objections to Mind Uploading\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gZChqb_VldA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ben Goertzel in response to some common objections covered in an article on io9 by George Dvorsky \u2018You\u2019ll Probably Never Upload Your Mind Into A Computer\u2019: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498\">http:\/\/io9.com\/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Objections are covered in order as they appear in the article:<br \/> 1. Brain functions are not computable.<br \/> 2. We\u2019ll never solve the hard problem of consciousness.<br \/> 3. We\u2019ll never solve the binding problem.<br \/> 4. Panpsychism is true.<br \/> 5. Mind-body dualism is true.<br \/> 6. It would be unethical to develop.<br \/> 7. We can never be sure it works.<br \/> 8. Uploaded minds would be vulnerable to hacking and abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goertzel wrote a response to the io9 article: <a href=\"http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/2013\/04\/20\/goertzel-contra-dvorsky-on-mind-uploading\/\">http:\/\/hplusmagazine.com\/2013\/04\/20\/goertzel-contra-dvorsky-on-mind-uploading\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goertzel.org\">http:\/\/www.goertzel.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opencog.org\">http:\/\/opencog.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Goertzel in response to some common objections covered in an article on io9 by George Dvorsky \u2018You\u2019ll Probably Never Upload Your Mind Into A Computer\u2019: http:\/\/io9.com\/you-ll-probably-never-upload-your-mind-into-a-computer-474941498 Objections are covered in order as they appear in the article: 1. Brain functions are not computable. 2. We\u2019ll never solve the hard problem of consciousness. 3. We\u2019ll [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}