XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.paranormal, soc.history   
   From: jtem01@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/4/25 6:38 PM, x wrote:   
      
   > All of these are sensations, which are the byproduct of   
   > sensory nerves coming in from the eyes, ears, body, nose,   
   > and tongue.   
      
   Computers don't have sensory nerves.   
      
   A lot -- most/all -- of these "Upload" talk is based on the   
   myth that your mind would even be capable of interfacing   
   with a computer.   
      
   > There is of course the standard question in philosophy,   
   > how do you know you have not already been uploaded?   
   > (The answer is that you do not know.)   
      
   The two biggest problems are that the human brain is   
   electro-chemical, not just electrical impulses, as well as   
   the fact that you can't upload a city. Or a continent.   
      
   And how would your uploaded consciousness even interact with   
   the uploaded world?   
      
   > Then of course there is the question - is there any   
   > 'you' when your body and brain have been eaten by   
   > maggots (or you have been cremated).   
      
   Not in any sense we understand.   
      
   Consciousness has no name. No face. It experiences.   
      
   > Considering the fine resolution (high frequency)   
   > microscopic level of reading required to do a copy,   
   > I am not sure you could realistically do a copy   
   > without destroying the original tissue.   
      
   The problem is that you'd have to upload the entire body, not   
   just the mind.   
      
      
      
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