News Briefing - Security: Police employ hard-drive-detecting dogs to catch criminals

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Loughran
Keyword(s):  
Hard Drive

Magnetic bacteria create a biological hard drive

2012 ◽  
Vol 214 (2863) ◽  
pp. 18
Author(s):  
Jacob Aron
Keyword(s):  
Hard Drive

Play Drive in the Hard Drive

2013 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Doris Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Hard Drive

Transhumanism Without Mind Uploading and Immortality

2021 ◽  
pp. 284-291
Author(s):  
Stefan Lorenz Sorgner
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulation ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Hard Drive ◽  
Plausible Argument

Elon Musk regularly advertises for the simulation argument, stressing that he regards it as highly likely that we live in a computer simulation. However, it must be noted that the argument can be reconstructed such that its line of thought can be rationally grasped. This, however, does not necessarily mean that it is a plausible argument. The argument presupposes the anthropology that human beings can be uploaded onto a hard drive, which is based upon the view that humans are nothing like a software running on our body which serves as our hardware. It is this understanding of the human species which has been employed by many transhumanists who stress that immortality is near. The author will explain the line of thought underlining the simulation argument while they will, at the same time, explain that it is neither highly likely that we live in a computer simulation, nor that we can upload our personalities onto a computer, and even if this was possible, it would not enable us to become immortal.

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