From: William (williamweb@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Apr 05 2002 - 13:57:10 MST
Randal,
I did find "mind uploading" to be a bit too fanciful and fantasy-like until
I read Kurzweil's
The_Age_of_Spiritual_Machines (and part of NanoMedicine). This was the
first time
that neuro-nanobots and the economic drivers toward this made realistic
sense to me.
Since then, I have found reputable research regarding EEGs hooked up to
quadriplegics,
neural interface design for artificial limbs and, of course, Kevin Warwicks
experiments
detailed at http://www.kevinwarwick.org/. The nanotech research or
"enabling technology"
that must precede it is heating up in both US gov. funding (www.nano.gov)
and much
private funding. I do find mind uploading dramatically more realistic and
even fairly
near-term (2020 or 2030). - Bill.
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> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 16:16:35 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Eugen Leitl <eugen@leitl.org>
> Subject: [MURG] minduploading.org: Bulletin on the Status of Mind
Uploading (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 09:06:08 -0500 (EST)
> From: Randal A. Koene <rak@minduploading.org>
> To: murg@minduploading.org
> Subject: [MURG] minduploading.org: Bulletin on the Status of Mind
Uploading
>
> (This bulletin is updated periodically at
> minduploading.org/mu-status-bulletin.html and posted to the MURG mailing
> list.)
>
> Thu Apr 4 08:44:58 EST 2002
> Randal A. Koene
>
> Perhaps we will all be astonished at the rapidity with which the public
> and officials adopt mind uploading as a scientific and social goal. Other
> technologies with similarly portentious anticipated effects on humanity
> are receiving credence and support from individuals, corporations and
> governments alike. Previously it was genetic engineering that made its way
> into the mainstream. Now it is nanotechnology that, while not many leaps
> beyond the stage that mind uploading is at, receives substantial official
> backing, such as R&D at Sandia National Laboratories (see
> http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2000/nanotech.htm). This bodes well
> for the prospects of research into Whole Brain Emulation, in addition to
> the immediate benefits that progress in nanotechnology will bring to Whole
> Brain Emulation.
>
> Generally speaking, it seems that the population in-the-know is
> surprisingly (at least it keeps surprising me) uncritical of the
> sociological impact that mind uploading will make, while in majority
> positively inclined towards the concept, and often-times quite literally
> anticipating it (see comments by Slashdot readers concerning the article
> by Ray Kurzweil:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/01/26/1133249&mode=nestedhe
> readership of that site is perhaps a rather skewed sample of the general
> population, but nonetheless a fair sample of the generation of scientists
> and technologists that will witness and participate in the development of
> mind uploading.
>
> Previous Mind Uploading Bulletin (Apr. 20, 2000):
> minduploading.org/mu-status-bulletin.20000420.html
>
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> Cheers,
> rak@minduploading.org
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