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September 21, 2026
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Копируем ли разум: полемика с трансгуманизмом

Культурно-историческая психология. 2013. № 4. С. 110–113.
Poddiakov A.

The paper discusses the technical and humanitarian aspects of the thesis of transhumanism about the possibility of copying the mind to a medium and rewriting it repeatedly (digital immortality). It is argued that the nature of the mind implies that it cannot be supported without its functioning, even if recorded, and such functioning (digital life) would inevitably lead to a discrepancy between the copy and the original. The paper further substantiates that the very fact of making such record seems highly unlikely due to the physical restrictions of the world, as well as to the effects of the following natural tendency: technologies would develop not in the direction of the 'copyableness' of the evolving human consciousness, but in the opposite direction of the increasing impossibility of copying the even more complicated mind (i.e. complexity growing faster than the means of precise copying).

Research target: Psychology Computer Science Philosophy, Ethics, and Religious Studies
Priority areas: humanitarian IT and mathematics
Language: Russian
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Keywords: трансгуманизмtranshumanismdigital immortalitydigital lifemind uploadingmoral dilemmasкопирование психики и сознанияцифровое бессмертиецифровая жизнькопирование сложностиморальные дилеммы
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