There is a debate about the possibility of mind-uploading – a process that purportedly transfers human minds and therefore human identities into computers. This paper bypasses the debate about the metaphysics of mind-uploading to address the rationality of submitting yourself to it. I argue that an ineliminable risk that mind-uploading will fail makes it prudentially irrational for humans to un...

We describe an approach for motion planning for nonholo-nomic systems without drift based on a combination of (a) earlier work of Sussmann and Laaerriere and (b) some recent results on approximation of trajectories, based on extensions of theorems of Kurzweil and Jarnik about limits of trajectories for highly oscillatory inputs.

Abstract-In analogous to classical ordinary differential equations, we study and establish results on converse variational stability of solution of quantum stochastic differential equations (QSDEs) associated with the Kurzweil equations. The results here generalize analogous results for classical initial value problems. The converse variational stability guaranteed the existence of a Lyapunov f...

It is shown that a Banach-valued Henstock-Kurzweil integrable function on an m-dimensional compact interval is McShane integrable on a portion of the interval. As a consequence, there exist a non-Perron integrable function f : [0, 1] −→ and a continuous function F : [0, 1] −→ such that