Add also, ooi, and in evidence of the undoubted brilliance and vast breadth of interests the man we have recently lost had .. another cloud ..
fuagf -- as to that, the trick is -- is that which is placed into the technical incarnation a dupe, a separate copy, or the one-and-only original self/consciousness, maintaining its own continuity through and beyond its being placed into the technical incarnation? -- does the person's own intrinsic self/consciousness live on only figuratively as duplicated in the technical incarnation, or does it live on literally as/within the technical incarnation?
I will have/post/tie together more -- but this one just popped up and I think bears strongly both on the perspective on robots, and on the nature of artificial intelligence and the types of systems from which it will arise/awaken (think also in particular of e.g. the already massive, rapidly growing/developing, and already significantly interconnected not only governmental but also [the at least cumulatively even more massive] private databases/big data/data mining):
Mark spent more time on this board than all of us could. He loved the idea of chronicling as much as he could of these leaning to authoritarian/fascist times. And, take it from me, he appreciated the help he got from all of those who helped him along the way. More than you could hope now to ever know.
No bullshit.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”