From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 11:00:07 MDT
Ah. Unfortunately, it's pretty boring.
Timothy Leary. Design for Dying. Harper Collins, San Francisco,
1997.
p. 170:
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Uploading: Mind If I Slip Into Something More Incorruptible?
The most commonly discussed mode for postbiological living is the idea
of uploading, copying or otherwise somehow transferring, your brain
patterns and structures into a new format, probably a highly advanced
computer hybrid.
Hans Moravec is the most well known proponent of this future
technology. In his book _Mind Children_, Moravec suggests a gradual
tranference of consciousness into steady state, neuron by neuron.
According to Extropian Eliezer Yudkowsky, this might be accomplished
by a process in which nanotechnological robots scan each of the
brain's neurons, placing a copy on the hard drive of the computer.
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No references, and not exactly what you're best known for.
-Dan
-unless you love someone-
-nothing else makes any sense-
e.e. cummings
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