Re: will "authentic self" uploading ever be possible?

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 15:07:43 MST


Zero Powers writes:

> Sorry, I missed your original post. Is it *pure* energy that you desire to
> transform your mind to? I'm no physicist, but it does strike me that it
> would be pretty hard to maintain the coherence of your mental patterns in
> the form of pure energy. What little I know of quantum mechanics and the

There is no such thing as pure energy, at least not for meaningful
amounts of time.

Postulating a nonmaterial cognition substrate today is science
fiction, with a strong emphasis on fiction.



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