From: Zeb Haradon (zharadon@inconnect.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 23:29:33 MDT
>Lets look to Transhumanism 'faith' that the technology will come along and
>successfully preserve their personalities through
>technical augmentation and later 'mental uploading'. Really? What happens
if
>the breakthroughs come slower than expected, or that technological
>bottlenecks occur before one is preserved under-glass? Do the folks at
Alcor
>really have the answers to such eventualities? Maybe..maybe not. And if
not,
>then what?
>
I can't speak for the Transhumanist movement. For myself, I absolutely do
not have faith that these things will happen. I hope that they will happen,
I will do what I can to contribute to their happening. I think it's fairly
likely to happen at *some point*, though I am not confident enough to give
any estimation of when. It depends on a mature nanotech, and on there even
being a mapping from frozen brain to active brain (to take cryonics as one
example).
If I had "faith" that cryonics would work, I would have responded thus:
"Maybe there is no evidence that it will work, but I feel in my heart that
it will. If you would simply accept it without trying to explain it
scientifically, you would feel it too, and you would understand why I
believe this"
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My personal web page:
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~haradon
Some "pyramid schemes" I take part in:
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