[orangecat]

Mind uploading assumes there can be physical control over qualia, and there's absolutely no evidence for that.

Well, the alternative is magic.

[michaelochurch]

My religious viewpoint, as a deist who believes existence in a higher power to be the most rational belief but denies the existence of "miracles", divine interventionism, prophecy or revealed religion: qualia is a miracle, probably the only one in this world, and the only one we need.