From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Nov 05 2002 - 12:00:26 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.
Yes for a perfect copy, but I was referring specifically to the
comparison between SHRDLU program and a living person. Do you believe
you could be destroyed and simultaneously uploaded into a SHRDLU-like
program and feel that you had survived death? I'm trying to understand
how that can happen, if it can happen. (I take nothing for granted. :-)
-gts
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