Transhumanist and Marxist?

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Can be a transhumanist be one who realizes that many of the 'predictions' of computer geeks (mind uploading, cybernetics, artificial intelligence) are mere speculations, but hopes for them anyways?

F19:13, 11 February 2012

If you want to define it that way, I guess. Mind "uploading" is woo, though.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:23, 11 February 2012

Why?

F19:25, 11 February 2012

Well, it's not "woo" in idea. We will some day understand exactly how we make memories, and therefore exactly how to replicate them. At that point we will be able to map all the memories and thoughts you've ever had and recreate them.

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Nebuchadnezzar (talk)19:38, 11 February 2012

I don't see how 'uploading' someone's memories would be impossible. Of course you can't 'upload' 'all of a person', as a person is also their body, but memories and personality and stuff, yeah, that seems pretty plausible.

F19:47, 11 February 2012

All you've done is create a computerized facsimile. "You," as in your own subjective experience, will be gone.

Nebuchadnezzar (talk)20:02, 11 February 2012

Oh yeah, of course. Your uploaded memories will basically become a new entity.

F20:07, 11 February 2012