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Immortality, Philosophy, and ‘Her’

IDEAS Posted: March 6, 2014 1:06 am

The Spike Jonze film “raises two questions that have long preoccupied philosophers. Are nonbiological creatures like Samantha capable of consciousness – at least in theory, if not yet in practice? And if so, does that mean that we humans might one day be able to upload our own minds to computers, perhaps to join Samantha in being untethered from ‘a body that’s inevitably going to die’?”

IDEAS Published: 03.02.14

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 03.02.14

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