From: Joe E. Dees (jdees0@students.uwf.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 21 1998 - 12:59:32 MDT
Date sent: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 11:12:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Joe Jenkins <joe_jenkins@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Lilliputian Posthumians
To: extropians@extropy.com
Send reply to: extropians@extropy.com
>
>
> ---Robin Hanson <hanson@econ.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > See: Lilliputian Uploads. Extropy 7(1):30-31, 1995. A copy is at
> >http://hanson.berkeley.edu/lilliput.html
>
> ---Copied from Robin Hanson's link above:
>
> > People's strong need for
> > the familiar physical sensations and comforts would have to
> satisfied in > a virtual reality that had little direct connection to
> ordinary physical > reality.
>
> I hope this isn't too rude, asking you to support something you wrote
> way back in ancient 1992 in a post to sci.nanotech.
>
> 1. What physical process in nostalgia nature cannot be emulated in a
> Turing equivalent machine such that Artificial Reality (AR) couldn't
> emulate Real Reality (RR) with 365 times speedup, thus providing a
> satisfactory "connection to ordinary physical reality" for uploaders?
> This was one of the key stated motivations for Tinkerbelizing in the
> first place.
>
> 2. If c=.4 or 365 times speedup. I would have to say that most
> familiar physical sensations and comforts (e.g. nostalgia nature)
> would be lost (see my last post). Again, this was one of the key
> stated motivations for Tinkerbelizing.
>
> Joe Jenkins
> joe_jenkins@yahoo.com
>
>
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Each neuron has up to 40,000 connections with other neurons, and
there are more than 30 billion (not million) of them in a human brain
weighing approximately 3 1/2 pounds. As complex and miniaturized
as it already is, and considering that the interaction of genetics and
experience has endowed each brain with a unique (although similar)
connection pattern, the difficulties involved in further shrinking them
are daunting, to say the least. Joe
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