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How to Save Conscious Life on Earth | Susan Schneider

Philosophy For Our Times

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The Future of Humans

i see the transhumanis as embracing a view that suggests that the mind is computational. And further, the mind is something like a softwr programme. We have to remember not to commit what the historian michael bess called the judsons fallacy. There will be all sorts of limitations that we will encounter within medicine. But what i'm interested in are philosophical issues. This arises if micro chips fail to underlie conscious experience. Second, i'll introduce the self seiling. This is a point beyond which the person who attempts to enhan er intelligent is no longer the same individual they were before. I was looking at the sunset and thinking about what it would feel like to be

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