many of those people (myself included) as captured by the idea of uploading or otherwise separating the consciousness from the body, which doesn’t seem to be what you want.
We have plenty of examples of consciousness running on meat. I have none of consciousness separate from the body.
I am unconvinced of “meat” being a uniquely-suitable substrate for anything remotely like consciousness. I think the crazy amount of silly things that turn out to be Turning-complete is sufficient evidence that meat is unlikely to be unique.
Tho, certainly, I’m not ready to be the first volunteer to be digitized or whatever.
We have plenty of examples of consciousness running on meat. I have none of consciousness separate from the body.
I am unconvinced of “meat” being a uniquely-suitable substrate for anything remotely like consciousness. I think the crazy amount of silly things that turn out to be Turning-complete is sufficient evidence that meat is unlikely to be unique.
Tho, certainly, I’m not ready to be the first volunteer to be digitized or whatever.