{"id":1451,"date":"2013-08-20T03:04:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T03:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-08-20T03:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T03:04:36","slug":"transhumanism-mind-uploading-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/08\/transhumanism-mind-uploading-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same &#8211; Video by G. Stolyarov II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MMEImqie5QA\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In what is perhaps the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/040925_transhumanism_Ray_Kurzweil_cult.html\">most absurd attack<\/a> on transhumanism to date, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com equates this broad philosophy and movement with &#8220;the entire idea that you can &#8216;upload your mind to a computer'&#8221; and further posits that the only kind of possible mind uploading is the destructive kind, where the original, biological organism ceases to exist. Mr. Stolyarov refutes Adams&#8217;s equation of transhumanism with destructive mind uploading and explains that advocacy of mind uploading is neither a necessary nor a sufficient component of transhumanism.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/07\/transhumanism-uploading-not-same\/\">Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Essay by G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/040925_transhumanism_Ray_Kurzweil_cult.html\">Transhumanism debunked: Why drinking the Kurzweil Kool-Aid will only make you dead, not immortal<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Mike Adams &#8211; NaturalNews.com &#8211; June 25, 2013<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sens.org\/\">SENS Research Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nanomedicine\">Nanomedicine<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Wikipedia<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxmore.com\/transhum.htm\">Transhumanism: Towards a Futurist Philosophy<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Essay by Max More<br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/2045.com\/\">2045 Initiative Website<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/bebionic.com\/\">Bebionic Website<\/a><br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rationalargumentator.com\/issue256\/Iliveforever.html\">How Can <em>I<\/em> Live Forever?: What Does and Does Not Preserve the Self<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Essay by G. Stolyarov II<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/06\/immortality-bio-or-techno\/\">Immortality: Bio or Techno?<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; Essay by Franco Cortese<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what is perhaps the most absurd attack on transhumanism to date, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com equates this broad philosophy and movement with &#8220;the entire idea that you can &#8216;upload your mind to a computer&#8217;&#8221; and further posits that the only kind of possible mind uploading is the destructive kind, where the original, biological organism ceases to exist. Mr. Stolyarov refutes Adams&#8217;s equation of transhumanism with destructive mind uploading and explains that advocacy of mind uploading is neither a necessary&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2013\/08\/transhumanism-mind-uploading-video\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,356,104],"tags":[2259,2139,404,2264,2260,2262,2163,1110,1976,40,2070,2079,1909,112,521,2258,1997,2261,412,2263,414,1932,2265,2025,1583],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","category-technology-2","category-transhumanism","tag-2045-initiative","tag-artificial-brain","tag-aubrey-de-grey","tag-augmentation","tag-avatar","tag-cybernetic-mind","tag-dmitry-itskov","tag-fallacy","tag-franco-cortese","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gradual-replacement","tag-gradual-uploading","tag-i-ness","tag-indefinite-life-extension","tag-life-extension","tag-mike-adams","tag-mind-uploading","tag-nanomedicine","tag-nanotechnology","tag-prosthetics","tag-ray-kurzweil","tag-sens","tag-straw-man","tag-subjective-continuity","tag-transhumanist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}