An AI... Utopia? (Nick Bostrom, Oxford)
The Michael Shermer Show
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Exploring Personal Identity and Technology
The chapter delves into philosophical thought experiments involving duplications, teleportation, and uploading of consciousness to question the preservation of personal identity. Discussions cover the concepts of self in relation to memory, point of view, and the complexities of defining oneself in potentially replicating memories. The conversation also touches on the challenges of defining personal identity in a post-human reality and the ethical considerations of creating replicas indistinguishable from originals.
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