[ExI] Mind Uploading: is it still me?

[Jason Resch]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 11:07 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> It sounds, from how you describe it, this book is basically an argument
> for functionalism, and that today's AIs have qualia?
> I take it he doesn't mention anything about subjective binding, what a
> color quality is, or neuro ponytails or anything like that?
>

Not quite, the theory presented is indifferent to the theory of
consciousness one subscribes to.

So for one to presume that they could survive in a robot body, they would
have to presume that robot to be conscious in the same way. But note that
this assumption can be treated separately from the question of "would it
still be me?"

Jason


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> On Tue, Dec 23, 2025 at 7:40 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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>> It has been a recurring question on this list, particularly in regards to
>> mind-uploading, as to the question of whether or not mind-uploads are self,
>> will you experience that uploaded life, or are you bound to your flesh
>> body? Is a destructive transfer necessary to end up in the new body, etc.
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>> These are questions that the field of personal identity is devoted to
>> answering.
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>> A new book just published on this subject, says the answer is yes.
>> Uploads are self, moreover destructive transfers aren't necessary. You are
>> all your copies. Follow the arguments and logic carefully laid out in this
>> book "Finding Myself: Beyond the False Boundaries of Personal Identity
>> <https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/BVDB.nsf/item?openform&product=publications&item=zuboff>"
>> available in paperback or as a free PDF e-book.
>>
>> Jason
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