The opportunity for direct control oered by the physicalist narrative goes as far as conquering death itself: if consciousness is just an epiphenomenon or emergent property of physical arrangements outside experience, it becomes conceivable that, through smart engineering, we could create means to upload our consciousness into more durable substrates such as silicon computers (Kurzweil 2005). Some physicalists even oer detailed roadmaps for achieving this (Sandberg & Böstrom 2008). The possibility of eternal life thus seems to open up, provided that consciousness can be instantiated in a computer by programming the computer with the patterns of information ow found in a person’s brain
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