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

[Adrian Tymes]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 9:08 AM Jason Resch via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025, 8:29 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 4, 2025 at 12:59 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat
>> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>> > If it is possible to upload a brain, the same tools should allow the
>> > reverse.
>>
>> Not necessarily.  It is quite possible to be able to read a state from
>> neurons - measuring the electrical and chemical state - without being
>> able to recreate that state.
>
> While true that it may be technically impossible (for a given technology level) it's shouldn't be logically or physically impossible to do so, given what is currently known about physics.

While true, that is unfortunately a non-sequitur.  Keith and I were
talking about specific technical states - what one could do with
certain specific tools - rather than what is broadly physically
possible in general without reference to specific implementations.