Re: RV: Immortality

From: hal@finney.org
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 11:05:37 MST


David Barrera writes:
> The best way to achieve immortality is simpler, I think, that creating an
> atom-by-atom replica of ourselves.
> The first step would be to upload ourselves into a computer.

Right, but then what happens if your program moves into another computer?
Isn't that just a COPY of your program? Wouldn't it be necessary to
make sure that the ORIGINAL program continued to run?

Hal



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