From: Emlyn (emlyn@one.net.au)
Date: Sun Dec 10 2000 - 21:57:43 MST
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Joel Thompson" <jasonjthompson@home.com>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 9:33 AM
Subject: Re: Immortality
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Harvey Newstrom" <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com>
>
> Although the copy question is always entertaining, I
> > am not sure what its usefulness is. Creating a new "me" is only half
> > the question. How do we handle the old "me"? Killing it or letting
> > it die is not a solution. That "solution" is the exact event I am
> > trying to prevent!
>
> Total agreement here Harvey, and I am consequently interested in upload
> vectors that expand/transfer/enhance my current subjective experience of
> reality. Despite the fact that a destructive 'copy-load' is probably, in
> theory, the easiest way to upload, I think its clear that the interimn
> strategy of adding hardware to our current facilities might give us some
> empowering upload options that preserve the original 'flame.'
>
>
> --
>
> ::jason.joel.thompson::
> ::founder::
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>
... and as we add new stuff, we can slowly shut off old stuff. Eventually,
the transition is complete. Like the axe handed down through generations,
head replaced 3 times, handle replaced 7 times, the components have changed,
but identity remains. I think we can fully upload, and retain conscious
integrity. Not by a copy mechanism, however; only by gradual modification
(how gradual? I don't know).
Unfortunately, this is not an information scenario, and means there is no
possibility of backups. Of course, backups can be made, and run, and they
will be very grateful for it, but the original's case is not helped at all.
Emlyn
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