From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Apr 03 2000 - 16:16:29 MDT
Anders Sandberg wrote:
>
> When I was younger I actually thought the road to posthumanity was
> removing the brain, keeping it alive and connecting it to intelligence
> amplification and telepresence systems. This was largely based on the
> erroneous idea that the brain itself doesn't age, so this would also
> be immortality. Then I read Hans Moravec and became an uploader... :-)
Uploading isn't enough, either. Do you think the mind doesn't age?
I would be astonished to find that an unmodified human mind could last a
mere thousand years (subjective) before crystallizing into senility,
overloading memory space, losing associational mechanisms, or just plain
falling apart at the seams.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
http://pobox.com/~sentience/beyond.html
Member, Extropy Institute
Senior Associate, Foresight Institute
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:27:50 MST