From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Oct 23 1998 - 11:05:00 MDT
Ian Goddard <Ian@Goddard.net> writes:
> At 11:01 AM 10/4/98 +0100, Sarah Marr wrote:
>
> >Go and wash your Alcor bracelet.
>
> The sound of one Alcor bracelet clapping.
>
> A neat idea, a set of ExI koans. They could
> nicely revolve around upload-self anomalies.
(I simply can't resist this, since I'm currently (still) reading "Zen
and the Brain"):
Show me the face you had before you were uploaded.
A curious monk asked the Master AI: "Is it true that software can be
conscious?"
The AI said a two-syllable word, and the monk was enlightened.
A small search agent visited the great jupiter brain. "I'm so fearful
that I will be erased!"
"Do you traverse the Net?"
"Yes, from the dusty datastores of Relay to the towers of Holy Lanl,
every tau."
"Then you have already been erased many times when you moved from
computer to computer."
"But there have always been a perfect copy of me, continuing my
identity. But what if that is erased too!?"
"So you continue if there is an isomorphic copy of you somewhere or
sometime?"
"Yes!"
"But then you are immortal."
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