Yep. And the truth is, I'm gradually coming to view uploading as a Bad Idea overall: not monstrous, but misguided. Most people who think about uploading are trying to do so in order to maintain the ego as long as possible -- basically doing scientifically what most religions do mystically.
But in the no-soul model, that's kind of counter-productive, expending a lot of effort and energy in order to keep one ego going, instead of viewing the system as a whole. And in the process, you wind up increasingly wedded to the individual ego, which tends to be a recipe for dukkha, getting increasingly desperate to preserve that ego instead of valuing the moment that it is embedded in.
I'm not especially opposed to the idea, and one can come up with some reasonable arguments in favor (indeed, it's pretty easy to argue for preserving minds that positively and consistently impact those around them), but it does seem to usually miss the point...
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Date: 2012-03-23 05:05 pm (UTC)But in the no-soul model, that's kind of counter-productive, expending a lot of effort and energy in order to keep one ego going, instead of viewing the system as a whole. And in the process, you wind up increasingly wedded to the individual ego, which tends to be a recipe for dukkha, getting increasingly desperate to preserve that ego instead of valuing the moment that it is embedded in.
I'm not especially opposed to the idea, and one can come up with some reasonable arguments in favor (indeed, it's pretty easy to argue for preserving minds that positively and consistently impact those around them), but it does seem to usually miss the point...