From: John K Clark (jonkc@att.net)
Date: Tue Jun 25 2002 - 08:55:13 MDT
"Christofer Bullsmith" <c_bullsmith@hotmail.com> Wrote:
> So far as I can see, uploading is no route to immortality. I might play
a
> crucial causal role in the creation of a machine intelligence, but I die
> anyway.
I think this matter may have come up once or twice before and everybody
always identifies with the person before the upload, but just for fun try
doing
it for the person afterwards. What would things be like for the upload?
Well,
the virtual world he lives in would look (at least it could look) exactly
like
this one, he would have all your memories of you when you were a child;
he observed no discontinuity, the transition from the real world to the
virtual
one was smooth. The important thing is that the upload remembers being you
and if something does that then you are not dead. By the way, do you have
any reason to think this has not already happened to you?
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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