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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Technotranscendence wrote:
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When I first read this, I thought this has to be wrong, but then I
realized it has to do with the technology involved. If you upload
> The lifespan issue is very important too. It might be considered cruel to
> uplift a creature that can only live such a brief life. (This might be
> subjective, but I think a life span of three years is too short. Heck, I'm
> interested in immortality just like most of you.:)
However this situation gets *really* interesting when you have exact copies with "consciousness" added onto the underlying programs. For example, you have a female praying mantis uplift and a male praying mantis uplift. Let me see a show of hands for people on the list who want to be mind-melded to the male as the female cuts off his head to release the block on his penile erectile function so they can exercise those reproductive drives...
Dying for sex, now thats what I call *natural*.
Now of course, uplifting praying mantis's and allowing them to have sex puts us back very close to the discussion of whether it is ok to create copies, sub-SIs, etc. use them for your purposes and then discard them when they are no longer useful.
But I'm not going to go there today.
Robert