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Ep 4: Marty and Holly on Brain Uploads in ‘The Terminal Experiment’
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Marty and Holly discuss Robert J. Sawyer's Nebula Award-winning book The Terminal Experiment. We talk about the possibility of uploading our minds into computers and/or replicating our physical brains, and think our way through philosophical issues about subjectivity and objectivity, materialism, identity and the teleporter dilemma. We discuss whether self-awareness is different and special, or just another subjective illusion built into us by evolutionary mechanisms of survival. We decide that there’s something special about the human experience, and also that we - personally - are land animals who would not get in a tin can to cross the void – though a ride down the river Tethys through the farcaster portals of Hyperion would be just fine.
Science Fiction Writer Robert J. Sawyer: The Terminal Experiment Synopsis (sfwriter.com)
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