This essay is a wrong, and here is proof!

Excellent post. The unspoken underlying premise is that when we die we simply cease to exist. No soul or spirit goes on to an afterlife. That is an invention of human arrogance.

Great post!

I've gotten down to "We simply sing or recite – no retrieval necessary." I have to say I really see this as a load of bull. He's using a lot of substitution of words that amount to the same thing in the end; the same end result. How these things are done in the human brain and a computer are not important. Until a computer is developed that actually utilizes brain tissue, it will never process anything in the same way that a human brain does.

However, what matters is essential functioning. To say the brain changes due to experience and so you can just sing a song without retrieval is pretty much saying that memory itself in essence does not exist. Technically speaking, the storage of information -changes- a computer, but we call it memory. The same could be said of the brain. No matter how it's technically done, a person has memories, whether imperfect or not. In essence, we do process information, however different in technical detail that might be to a computer, the basic function still happens. Calling processes by different names doesn't negate what happens.

good illustration of linguistic and conceptual limitations

Great article. I've been unconvinced by the proclamations made by various futurists, and I'm glad to see there's reason to be sceptical.

Hmmmm.

It bursts some myths for sure.

Cool, thanks for posting this! It will distract me nicely from what I intended to do next tonight...