Are you a soul trapped in a body, or is embodiment essential to who you are? The answer determines whether mind uploading is possible and whether resurrection is real hope or metaphor.
In this article for CPOSAT, mathematician Walter Huddell argues for the essential unity of body and consciousness. Using John Paul II’s Theology of the Body and contemporary debates about AI and transhumanism, he makes the case that being human means being embodied, with implications for everything from consciousness engineering to the meaning of bodily resurrection.
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