Tag: Thought experiment

the concept of mind uploading or transferring consciousness to a digital format.

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News
Date
October 8, 2025

Categorized
Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism

Tagged
Mind Uploading, Patternism, Physicalism, Problem of Smith, Ray Kurzweil, Self/less (film 2015), Soul and mind uploading, The Singularity is Nearer (book 2024), Thought experiment, Tyler Bauer}

The Problem of Smith: When Mind Uploading Multiplies Identity

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October 8, 2025

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Philosophy of Mind, Transhumanism}

Tyler Bauer: If personal identity is grounded in an immaterial soul, the real Smith is the body that contains his original soul. Read More ›

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Erik J. Larson
Date
August 16, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Philosophy of Mind, Science Fiction

Tagged
Coordinated Avian Models (CAMs), Featured, Thought experiment}

Part 3: A Wren Arrives — and Ruffles Many a Feather

_{Dr. Wren, a cognitive scientist, identifies a problem with assuming that adding another ten thousand pigeons to the project will produce novel designs...} _{Erik J. Larson
August 16, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Philosophy of Mind, Science Fiction}

We remain confronted by the same old mystery: who, or what, imagines the birdhouse in the first place? Read More ›