KOPÍROVANIE ZABÍJA IDENTITU OSOBY

• Authors: Juraj Odorčák

Title variants

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Copying: Killing personal identity

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper sheds light on the idea of uploading persons. Trans-humanists defend the possibility of uploading persons. However, this might lead to substantial dualism of a person and its substrate. Dualism contradicts other trans-humanist philosophical presuppositions so, the trans-humanist theory as a whole could be contradictory. The problem of dualism can be eliminated by introducing the concept of emulation. Thus the concept of emulation could resolve the aforementioned contradiction in the trans-humanist theory. On the other hand, the drawback of the concept of emulation could be a threat to personal identity. Hence, the main task of transhumanism is not to tackle the problem of person but rather that of personal identity.

Keywords

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TRANSHUMANISM; PERSON; UPLOADING; DUALISM; IDENTITY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 70
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 367 – 377

Contributors

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Juraj Odorčák

• Centrum pre bioetiku, Katedra filozofie FF UCM v Trnave, Trnava, Slovak Republic