Re: what it's like to be uploaded

From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 19:35:05 MST


Damien Broderick writes:

> Work with me here, QM. What I'm asserting - since trying to prove the
> almost imponderable is a waste of time - is that quite quickly the
> condition of the uploaded will be so very strange that such comic strip
> fantasies will have as much plausibility as the speculations of two
> bacteria discussing life as a kidney.

This is true, but there are still constraints of computational physics
from the real world, shining through. This does hardly prune away any
of the weirdness, though.



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