Re: Immortality

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Wed Dec 06 2000 - 16:13:00 MST


At 2:20pm -0800 12/6/00, hal@finney.org wrote:
>I think it is helpful to get away from our meat-brain orientation in
>looking at these questions. Imagine that you are *already* uploaded
>and running as a computer program. (Ignore whether or not you are the
>"same" person as the one who was uploaded.)

No offense, but I don't find this helpful. The main question for me
*is* whether the copy is the same person or not. You are skipping
past the question and saying to ignore it. I have no idea whether
moving blocks of memory around is acceptable to me. I know that this
is how software works, but until I define my own requirements for my
operations, I can't look at a specific case to see if it is good
enough for me.

-- 
Harvey Newstrom <HarveyNewstrom.com>


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