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Reddit mentions of A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading
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Last year I started making etched copper wrist watches. I was about to scale up to a small business and start producing them in large enough quantites to sell, and then we suddenly did a huge house extension and the contractors took over my basement workshop for eight months. I never picked it up again after the job was done...but in the last few weeks I started looking over my old notes. Maybe I'll give it another go.
Maybe. I dunno. I also just wrote a book (nonfiction) and I'm sketching out a followup book...and I've never recorded the last musical piece I composed, and my wife has me on the hook to build a platform bed for the bedroom, so I have lots of projects in my queue.
So with mind uploading, there are actually several procedures we could be talking about. If you're interested in taking an in depth look at some various procedures, Keith Wiley's book A Taxonomy and Metaphysics of Mind-Uploading is a great place to start.
The Ship of Theseus has already been mentioned. This type of procedure for uploading a mind is called gradual replacement. The procedure where you copy the brain and instantiating a new version of it is called scan-and-copy.
If you accept that there has to be some level of continuity (temporal, psychological, etc.) for personal identity to persist, then the scan-and-copy procedure would not transfer personal identity to the new instantiation. It could be possible to transfer personal identity through a gradual replacement procedure, but there would be no way to test. Although others might hold different views than me (e.g. The Fallacy of Favoring Gradual Replacement Over Scan-And-Copy).
Keep in mind that the Ship of Theseus thought experiments generally have to do with object identity, which doesn't really help us understand what it takes to to transfer personal identity. There are a lot of unknowns at this point in the domain of mind uploading.
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As a side note, I'm working on a series of documents that outlines these topics (among other things). I also introduce some of my own ideas for mind uploading, personal identity, and mind uploading procedures. If anyone is super interested, here's the link to the documents:
Lifetimes Infinity Roadmap Series - Master Document List
Just know that many of the documents are still under development and might be very very messy. If in doubt, just stick to the "draft ready documents". The one on mind uploading is the one I'm working on right now, so be warned :)