Daniel C Dennett, a professor of philosophy at Tufts University, USA and leading naturalist voice in the philosophy of mind, has suggested that in the future humans could gain an immortal soul and be able to upload information from our minds to a digital format, similar to the storylines of popular Netflix series, Black Mirror which envisaged human minds being uploaded to computer systems where they can live forever in ‘digital heaven’.
The debate, released today, focuses on whether atheistic naturalism or Christian theism better explains the unique mysteries and questions that human consciousness will pose.
It has been released as part of The Big Conversation series and hosted by Premier Christian Radio presenter, Justin Brierley.
The debate pitched Dennett, who has authored books such as ‘Breaking the Spell: Religion As A Natural Phenomenon’ against Keith Ward, British philosopher and former Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford University who is also an ordained priest in the Church of England.
Dennett argues: “One of the things we know about robots that makes them profoundly unlike moral agents, is that they are potentially immortal because you can download all the software, back them up and reboot them.
“If the information in my brain were perfectly encoded, and this brain [I have currently] died, it could be uploaded in digital format and I…
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