From: Hubert Mania (humania@t-online.de)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 02:27:13 MDT
Avatar wrote:
[...]
> So my advise to you as to "back ups" if you're worried is to keep 2 or 3
> parts of your brains separate (even in a computronium bank) but in
> continuous broadcast linkage with the rest of your brain. Where your body
> (if you have one) or bodies is situation is a matter of personal taste.
Hi Avatar, I snipped the big first part of your answer. Hope, you don`t regard this as
being impolite, but I think I must do a lot of reading before I really can understand
all the implication of Tiplerian scenarios. I`m not that familiar with it. But thanxs
anyway for providing this connection.
> I should reiterate that "software" could only be fully "loadable" onto
> hardware in the sense you are thinking of if such was possible right down to
> the quantum level, in which case we are now in a Tiplerian scenario.
> Anything short of that and any discontinuity of connection and you have a
> "close-analogue" duplicate of yourself which is not you.
Now, that`s an interesting feature. Could this point to a kind of *relativity theory of
immortality*, I mean that a real one to one correspondence between us and our backups
might actually never be achievable, not even on the quantum level? What do you think?
> Though the analogy
> doesn't really hold and is a bit dumb, I suppose the equivalent would be a
> PC - if you turn off the computer and restart it, the harddrive is
> temporarily in a coma but if you wipe the hard drive clean and install a
> back-up cd you have a "close-analogue" duplicate. If you compared the hard
> drive before the wipe and after the re-installation you would see atomic
> differences.
Doesn`t sound dumb to me at all, maybe because I can easily switch my IQ into low mode -
comes somehow natural to me :-)) - so I can perfectly understand what you mean without
being bothered by any epistemological or heuristical objection.
Thanx for your input
humania
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