Can We Upload Ourselves to a Computer and Live Forever?

Mind Matters

Apr 09 2020 | 00:22:14

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Show Notes

There are some who say immortality is available if we can upload our minds to a computer. This presupposes our minds are computable and can be duplicated by a computer. Are our minds computable? Robert J. Marks and Dr. Selmer Bringsjord discuss consciousness, cognition, and artificial intelligence. Show Notes 00:39 | Introducing Selmer Bringsjord, Professor — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) 01:18 | Can computers fake all human behaviors? 02:02 | Can computers duplicate all human behaviors? 03:10 | Subjective measurement 04:40 | The definition of cognition 08:50 | Is consciousness is a special case of cognition? 13:16 | Are consciousness Read More ›

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