Why 'upgrading' humanity is a transhumanist myth | Douglas Rushkoff

Upload your mind? Here's a reality check on the Singularity.

- Though computer engineers claim to know what human consciousness is, many neuroscientists say that we're nowhere close to understanding what it is, or its source.

- Scientists are currently trying to upload human minds to silicon chips, or re-create consciousness with algorithms, but this may be hubristic because we still know so little about what it means to be human.

-Is transhumanism a journey forward or an escape from reality?

Douglas Rushkoff is the host of the Team Human podcast and a professor of digital economics at CUNY/Queens. He is also the author of a dozen bestselling books on media, technology, and culture, including, Present Shock, Program or Be Programmed, Media Virus, and Team Human, the last of which is his latest work (https://goo.gl/QmibYm).

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