[ExI] Philosopher claims - Consciousness can't be uploaded

[BillK]

Consciousness can't be uploaded
Digital immortality is a metaphysical mirage
1st September 2025
William Egginton   Decker Professor in the Humanities

<https://iai.tv/articles/consciousness-cant-be-uploaded-auid-3352?_auid=2020>
Quote:
Uploading minds to computers isn’t just technically impossible—the
whole idea rests on a deep misconception of consciousness and our
place in reality. So argues William Egginton, whose recent book
explores the relationships between the philosophies of Kant,
Heisenberg and Borges. Drawing a parallel between minds and spacetime
singularities inside black holes, he argues that to try to know such
things involves trying to go beyond mere appearances to reality as it
is in itself—a futile project, he claims. And if minds cannot be truly
known, they certainly can’t be copied or uploaded to computers.
Futurists like Ray Kurzweil and Dmitry Itskov, who aim for cybernetic
immortality, are chasing a metaphysical mirage.
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Quite a long article.
His main point seems to be that minds are not just data. If you don't
fully understand how consciousness arises in the first place, copying
it is impossible.
OK, so we need to understand consciousness better.
Let's hope that is not an impossible task.

BillK