Re: Uploading, info theory, and threads of consciousness

From: Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Date: Sun Nov 03 1996 - 15:41:34 MST


>Try to imagine that you, yourself, do die every night, and awaken each
>morning as a new person, with only memories to link you to the person you
>were before? Is this possible? How will it be different when someone with
>your memories awakens as an upload?

Damn I hate this thread due to the fact that this is scary shit! Especially
the part about children afraid of falling asleep because they're stream of
consciousness would end. I'm going to have a tough time going to sleep
tonite. If sleep=death then death wasn't all it was cracked up to be so
perhaps there's no need to fear it.



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