Re: from cryonic suspension to upload

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 21:58:26 MDT


At 08:21 PM 7/10/02 -0700, spike wrote:

>Perhaps when dealing with skeptics, we should
>point out that we can create software emulators of any computer,
>and our brains are computers.

No no 1000 x no!

When dealing with *the deep and inducted inner circle of the secret upload
Masonry*, we may point this out. Otherwise, nyet! That's *exactly* the kind
of claim that will send most decent, ordinary, wholesome, warmly human (you
know) kinda people gagging and screaming for the exits.

"THIS MAN WANTS TO CUT OFF OUR HEADS, FREEZE THEM, AND THEN TURN THE
REMAINS INTO ICY SOULLESS ROBOTS FROM HELL!"

Better not to go there, don't you think, not at the outset.

Damien Broderick



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