Why is science incompatible with uploaded minds?
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try to unpack that so i can see your reasoning
1. Everyone accuses anything reductionist of being nihilistic. But reductionism is a matter of degrees. Believing in one less "thing" than someone else doesn't make you a full blown nihilist any more than believing in one less god than someone else makes you an atheist.
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2. Human nature contains whatever the source of meaning is but not everything in human nature is necessary to whatever the source of meaning is
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3. These problems are innate to humans, not people. There are potentially infinite variations of persons that are non-human and some of these don't have these intrinsic problems.
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i'm not doing that (or at least, i'm not making the charge without warrant- you are simply straw-manning me), so this doesn't land you are reducing *ultimately* the things on which we reason about meaning- "solving" these fundamentals by making them not problems *is* nihilism
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Ok. Well, that seems silly to me. I think meaning is compatible with materialism. But if your metaphysics labels me a nihilist I don't care. It's not my metaphysics.
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