From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Mar 08 2002 - 13:03:33 MST
On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, natashavita@earthlink.net wrote:
> Why do you think uploading is a logical next step for copying the brain
> and transferring information to a more secure and durable format?
Uploading (which is fully compatible with bodies, whether remotely driven
or not) has the following advantages:
* it works *today*, assuming that cryonics works
* it allows you to participate in a richer reality, since unconstrained by
physical laws but those of computational physics and co-evolution
dynamics
* it could offer speedup factors to a million, resulting in more efficient
utilization of time (depending on properties of our universe, our
lifetime looks rather finite).
* uploading gives extra flexibility and safety, allowing remote
incremental backups, mind morphing, trajectory forcing, teleportation
within relativistic constraints, clean shutdown and resume, arbitrary
adjustment of time base, and similiar
* with uploading body is an option, not a single choice
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