jaretogarato

Ray Kurzweil talks about the evolution of technology and the emergence of the singularity. Kurzweil’s brilliance and the reasoning of his arguments put him in a rare class, one among few who can discuss the possibility of immortality as a physical being without tempting concerns for his sanity. However, I admit that there are some rarely-discussed issues in this conversation with which I struggle. For example: if in fact we are at some point able to upload our consciousness into a machine, there’s this sticky matter that there’s still a copy running on your brain. I think that you still experience death, even if there’s now another mind out there that thinks it’s you, and may never have to. Am I missing something, Mr. Kurzweil?