From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 05:58:14 MST
gts wrote:
>> As extropians, isn't our monumental problem that of finding a way to
>> upload the awareness of a living person?
>>
>> I think we are not interested merely in creating uploads that blindly
>> simulate their dead human predecessors.
If the copy/simulation is correct, then the result of it's processes will be
the same awareness as the original person.
It seems that at some level you believe that awareness "inhabits" the
machine, rather than being a direct result of the processes of the machine.
- Jef
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