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Transhumanism and Mind Uploading Are Not the Same
Author: Gennady Stolyarov II In what is perhaps the most absurd attack on transhumanism to date, Mike Adams of NaturalNews.com equates this broad philosophy and movement with âthe entire idea that you can âupload your mind to a computerââ and further posits that the only kind of possible mind uploading is the destructive kind, where the original, biological organism ceases to exist. Adams goes so far as calling transhumanism a âdeath cult much like the infamous Heavenâs Gate cult led by Marshal Applewhite.â I will not devote this essay to refuting any of Adamsâs arguments against destructive mind uploading, because no serious transhumanist thinker of whom I am aware endorses…