Re: Eliezer in Design for Dying was: My techno-archaology weekend...

From: Dan Fabulich (daniel.fabulich@yale.edu)
Date: Wed Aug 30 2000 - 11:00:07 MDT


Ah. Unfortunately, it's pretty boring.

Timothy Leary. Design for Dying. Harper Collins, San Francisco,
1997.

p. 170:

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Uploading: Mind If I Slip Into Something More Incorruptible?

The most commonly discussed mode for postbiological living is the idea
of uploading, copying or otherwise somehow transferring, your brain
patterns and structures into a new format, probably a highly advanced
computer hybrid.

Hans Moravec is the most well known proponent of this future
technology. In his book _Mind Children_, Moravec suggests a gradual
tranference of consciousness into steady state, neuron by neuron.
According to Extropian Eliezer Yudkowsky, this might be accomplished
by a process in which nanotechnological robots scan each of the
brain's neurons, placing a copy on the hard drive of the computer.

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No references, and not exactly what you're best known for.

-Dan

      -unless you love someone-
    -nothing else makes any sense-
           e.e. cummings



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