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been holding off on getting your brains destructively uploaded i have a couple of bits of good news there s a new video and a paper draft available for my project metaphysical daring as a posthuman survival strategy forthcoming in a special issue of midwest studies in philosophy on science fiction and philosophy edited by eric schwitzgebel gander at the draft at this link here s the abstract believing that one can survive having one s mind uploaded to a computer while having one s brain destroyed may be better than the contrary belief in a sense of better determined independently of the belief s truth different metaphysical views about a person s persistence conditions can be ordered on a scale ranging from extremes of metaphysical daring to extremes of metaphysical timidity further the adoption of more daring metaphysical views may confer survival advantages to posthuman adopters and their descendants regardless of whether their views are true the metaphysically timid who refuse to upload may go extinct and be supplanted by their more daring posthuman descendants this possibility can serve as a basis for contemporary humans to endorse posthumanist values and projects including a willingness to subjecting themselves to mind uploading procedures the video has just been made available by the university of texas arlington where i presented this stuff in 2014 if you want to skip around in the video here are the main landmarks kenneth williford s very nice introduction ends around 03 20 following the talk is a q and a that starts around 31 39 hermanns lecture series 2014 philitechia dr pete mandik from english department uta on vimeo and here s an interview with me about this stuff from hopesandfears com upload your mind and live forever cross posted at alternate minds posted by pete mandik at 3 37 pm 2 comments labels singularity studies the singularity video wednesday august 12 2015 dennett on mandik on dennett and rosenthal out now is content and consciousness revisited with replies by daniel dennett edited by carlos munoz suarez and felipe de brigard my chapter in the book is conscious state anti realism dennett s reply to my chapter is on pp 218 219 viewable below as well as at this link containing all of his replies here s an excerpt from my chapter dennett s most famous argument for his first person operationalism hereafter fpo proceeds by pointing out the alleged empirical underdetermination of theory choice between stalinesque and orwellian explanations of certain temporal anomalies of conscious experience dennett op cit pp 115 126 the explanations conflict over whether the anomalies are due to misrepresentations in memories of experiences orwellian or misrepresentations in the experiences themselves stalinesque david rosenthal 1995 2005a 2005b has offered that his higher order thought theory of consciousness hereafter hot theory can serve as a basis for distinguishing between orwellian and stalinesque hypotheses and thus as a basis for resisting fpo the gist of hot theory is that one s having a conscious mental state consists in one s having a higher order thought a hot about that mental state i ll argue that hot theory can defend against fpo only on a relational reading of hot theory whereby consciousness consists in a relation between a hot and an actually existing mental state i ll argue further that this relational reading leaves hot theory vulnerable to objections such as the unicorn argument mandik 2009 to defend against such objections hot theory must instead admit of a nonrelational reading whereby a hot alone suffices for a conscious state indeed hot theorists have been increasingly explicit in emphasizing this nonrelational reading of hot theory rosenthal 2011 weisberg 2010 and 2011 however i ll argue on this reading hot theory collapses into a version of fpo here s dennett s reply click image for larger image or click here here s a video synopsis from back when my project was a contribution in consciousness online 4 2012 and as a video bonus here s my rundown of dennett s theory of consciousness posted by pete mandik at 11 31 am 1 comments labels consciousness daniel dennett monday august 3 2015 my review of intelligence unbound by blackford and broderick out now at notre dame philosophical reviews my review of intelligence unbound the future of uploaded and machine minds edited by russell blackford and damien roderick excerpt this work collects contributions to the growing literature in what might be dubbed singularity studies where the singularity in question is the technological singularity a hypothetical future moment when the rate of change of human technology reaches a speed that surpasses human capacities to predict and prepare for further changes on the presumption that technological increase follows an exponential curve the singularity is the knee of the bend the point beyond which the graph abandons the nearly horizontal for the nearly vertical despite the danger that merely human cognition won t keep up with post singularity events perhaps cognition that is either artificially enhanced or wholly artificially constituted will be able to thrive in post singularity times but if such cognitive systems appear on the scene we must wonder what implications this will have for humans of the sort currently predominant can wholly non human super intelligent minds be tamed or otherwise coaxed into friendliness toward their human creators this is the core question of super artificial intelligence super ai can the essence of what presently counts as a human be preserved in a wholly artificial substrate this is the core question of mind uploading these core questions as well as equally important and intriguing related questions orbiting the cores are engagingly tackled in a variety of styles by the tome s contributors posted by pete mandik at 11 09 pm 2 comments labels singularity studies the singularity friday july 17 2015 succinct new video overview of the spacetimemind podcast posted by pete mandik at 12 49 pm 1 comments labels spacetimemind video monday june 15 2015 interview of me on mind uploading upload your mind and live forever is an interview of me on mind uploading over at hopesandfears com excerpt well part of what i m trying to say is that like most metaphysical debates this is going to be irresoluble by argumentation there s really nothing that pure reason is going to allow us to settle one way or another all the evidence that we have we all tend to agree on that evidence just underdetermines whether computers could have conscious experiences or whether they would be mere copies or actual survival of personal identity what i try to do as a way of resolving that metaphysical impasse is to look at it from a darwinian or evolutionary point of view the basic point of darwinian evolution applies to any kind of system where you have things that are replicating and various degrees of fitness that would apply to the things that are reproducing on this kind of abstract characterization we could describe various hypothetical systems as having features that would be more fit now one of the features that these computer simulations would have is something we could describe as being belief like in particular these things are going to have the belief that they are going to survive the procedure now the metaphysical debate is about whether that belief is true and what i m trying to argue is that we can say regardless of whether that belief is true that belief would have survival value physical systems that have that belief are more likely to make more copies of themselves than physical systems that lack that belief posted by pete mandik at 6 24 pm 1 comments labels singularity studies sunday january 18 2015 video trailer for the 2015 spring semester of the spacetimemind podcast posted by pete mandik at 7 49 pm 1 comments labels announcements spacetimemind video wednesday october 29 2014 two new mandik videos on intentionality the man with two brains i ve just uploaded two new videos to my youtube channel the first brains machines and intentionality presupposes some familiarity with searle s chinese room argument against artificial intelligence so i made a second video for the uninitiated that one is called searle s chinese room argument against artificial intelligence if you haven t seen em yet do check out my older videos dennett s multiple drafts theory of consciousness and two flavors of neurophilosophy posted by pete mandik at 9 21 am 1 comments labels video sunday october 5 2014 support piksi the philosophy in an inclusive key summer institute philosophy in an inclusive key summer institute piksi is dedicated to improving the pipeline of diverse and under represented students into philosophy graduate programs and ultimately into the profession piksi is conducting a fund raising campaign this month with the hope to get support from far and wide this is something concrete we can do to increase diversity in philosophy here is a link to the piksi fundraising page where you can also find a video made by previous participants https www indiegogo com projects piksi 2014 changing the face of philosophy if you d like more info about piksi here is a link to the homepage http rockethics psu edu education piksi posted by pete mandik at 3 25 pm 1 comments monday september 15 2014 spacetimemind podcast episode 13 neurophilosophy and consciousness with brit brogaard the latest episode of my podcast with richard brown is out today episode 13 neurophilosophy and consciousness with brit brogaard space time mind from the show notes hide your brains the neurophilosophers are coming philosopher and neuroscientist berit brit brogaard joins richard brown and pete mandik on the spacetimemind podcast to discuss what makes some states of the mind or brain conscious and others unconscious is this sort of question answerable from a psychological or philosophical perspective that makes no essential reference to neuroscience or instead are neuroscientific data unavoidable in this domain and can brit go a full ten minutes without using the word brain posted by pete mandik at 10 26 am 1 comments labels spacetimemind monday september 8 2014 new mandik paper what s it like when your eyes move image source pete mandik on flickr is there a distinctive visual phenomenology that accompanies saccadic eye movement i suggest that there is none in my short piece what s it like when your eyes move appearing starting today at the brain s blog symposium on wayne wu s against division consciousness information and the visual streams here s an excerpt from my contribution on this alternative to wu s hypothesis the best way to account for so called spatial constancy is instead of treating it as the appearance of an absence of motion we treat it as an absence of an appearance of motion so back to my visual inspection of my yard i see the chairs and the tree trunk which involves i presume neural processes encoding relevant information concerning shape location and color and during saccades i just don t have any representations of those things as moving which i presume is different from having representations of the things as not moving posted by pete mandik at 4 32 pm 1 comments labels announcements consciousness neurophilosophy older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog subscribe to brain hammer posts atom posts all comments atom all comments about me pete mandik view my complete profile my stuff my books papers my art my music my fiction my photography my video my comix my robots recent comments loading selected mandik papers action oriented representation beware of the unicorn consciousness as being represented and other things that don t exist color consciousness conceptualism conscious state anti realism control consciousness evolving artificial minds and brains mental colors conceptual overlap and discriminating knowledge of particulars mental 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