From: gts (gts@optexinc.com)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 11:49:05 MDT
Rafal, continuing...
> It is a great benefit to be able to model the world in terms
> of a number of levels, with no need to fully model a lower
> level to get useful data while looking at a higher level. Try it.
Okay, try thinking this way:
I mentioned testosterone as an important influence on our personalities.
Rather than considering this hormone as an organic chemical, think of it
instead in conceptual terms. Think of it as an "agent of aggression and
sexual desire."
To keep our personalities intact we will need encode for this agent. The
agent can take any form because we are interested only its function. If
our personalities are going to be encoded into 1's and 0's then we can
assign this agent to a variable. The magnitude of the value assigned to
the variable at time t in our uploaded personalities would be
proportionate, let us say, to the level of testosterone in a ml of blood
at the same time t had we not uploaded.
Now then, we will then need to create a class or subroutine to control
the value of that variable. That class or subroutine is analogous to the
genetic instructions that exist in our organic genes that control
testosterone production. Without that class or subroutine -- without
that gene -- our transhuman personalities will not be the same.
-gts
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