From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 11:55:55 MST
My question is: Does the universe "lose" an integrated
memory-personality-sensory system, when an upload occurs? My concern is that
what may result is something that bears no resemblance to the original
personality. Also, does the upload became insane (unstable) after such an
upload? There seem to me to be so many technological bottlenecks (at
present) to sustaining the original core personality, as a reference point.
Something that blabs on as if brain-damaged, or rages, or "cries"
continuously, cannot be construed as a successful, upload. Well, this is what
I fear anyway.
Hal Finney intoned:
<<Uploading also does not necessarily mean operating in virtual reality
independent of the physical universe. Of course if the new system is
super-fast, it may not be desirable to spend too much time waiting
for things to happen in the physical universe, so naturally we would
turn to some form of VR which can operate at a more convenient speed.
But manipulating the physical universe will still be a necessary and
important activity. Even if you spend most of your time in a VR there
needs to be construction, maintenance and defense of the physical
substrate which runs the VR. >>
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