Vintage Skeptic Magazine (volume 21 number 2 2016 - Cover: Uploading Your Brain) by Michael Shermer (Editor)

Volume 21, Number 2 (2016) of Skeptic magazine is a highly sought-after issue featuring the cover story "Uploading Your Brain". It critically explores the science, technical plausibility, and deep philosophical implications of mind uploading and virtual immortality.

The issue tackles the question: Is uploading your mind to a computer a realistic scientific pursuit, or just science fiction? Key articles and essays from this edition include:

Virtual Immortality by Robert Lawrence Kuhn: An essay analyzing if uploading human consciousness is scientifically possible and what the profound consequences would be if a human mind was successfully duplicated or placed into non-biological entities.

Uploading Your Mind Does Not Compute: A critical look at how the idea of the "AI singularity" is trending but fundamentally misinterprets the deep, material causes of human consciousness.

Mind Uploading: An Argument for the Scientific and Technical Plausibility of Preserving Thoughts Indefinitely by Peter Kassan: An article balancing the debate over whether the preservation of consciousness will ever be feasible.

Uploading Your Brain
Volume 21 Number 2

SPECIAL ISSUE: Uploading the Mind to a Computer
Mind Uploading: An Argument for the Scientific and Technical Plausibility of Preserving Thoughts Indefinitely by Kenneth Hayworth; Uploading Your Mind Does Not Compute by Peter Kassan; Virtual Immortality: Why the Mind-Body Problem is Still a Problem by Robert Lawrence Kuhn

SPECIAL SECTION: What Motivates Extremists?
Once Upon a Time: Re-Thinking the Fight Against Extremists by Tina Dupuy; Dealing With Islamism: Trust, Costly Signaling and Forming Moral Teams by Peter Boghossian and James A. Lindsay; Apocalypse Soon?: How Emerging Technologies, Population Growth, and Global Warming Will Fuel Apocalyptic Terrorism in the Future by Phil Torres

ARTICLES
Paleoanthropology Wars: The Discovery of Homo naledi has Generated Considerable Controversy in this Scientific Discipline by Nathan H. Lents; Charlie Sheen’s HIV Goat Milk Doctor by Harriet Hall, M.D.; Massachusetts: Mass Hysteria Cover Up by Robert E. Bartholomew; Agony and Ecstasy: Were Saint Paul’s Christian Beliefs a Symptom of Epileptic Personality Disorder? by Harry White; In Defense of Anti-Science: Why the Anti-anti-science Movement Has Gone too Far by J. Howard Siegal; The Decline of Intelligent Design: The 10th Anniversary of the Dover Decision and the Demise of Intelligent Design by Donald Prothero

COLUMNS
The SkepDoc: Flu Shots Facts and Fallacies by Harriet Hall, M.D.;The Gadfly: How Accurate is the “Cycle of Abuse”? by Carol Tavris

REVIEW
“Sacred Cows: A Lighthearted Look at Belief and Tradition Around the World” by Seth Andrews reviewed by Donald Prothero

JUNIOR SKEPTIC: Man-Eating Plants: The Cannibal Tree of Madagascar by Daniel Loxton.

Condition: Like new, never read, may have very slight shelf wear from storage, has some wear and tear on the covers and spine, pages are clean and crisp, see photos

Publication date ‏ : ‎ 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 74 pages