>>This would enable you to grow
>>into the virtual world to where you could switch between both and then
>>eventually disconnect all biological senses entirely and live inside this
>>virtual world.
>I think I'd like to live in both worlds.
You can live in both worlds using a biological drone body or a
nanite-composed drone body.
>>Is this better than cloning yourself inside a machine and
>>destroying the original biological copy and thus kill off 'you' your
>>self-aware being for some clone knowing everything you know living inside a
>>virtual world?
>Call me old-fashioned, but making an immortal copy of me doesn't appear
>to *me* as if it helps *me*. I'm not too keen on the idea of killing myself,
>even if I know that there's some other me that's ready to take up the
>slack.
I myself agree, I was being sarcastic. I of course want to be me. I was
explaining how the only way to upload is though a gradual upload.
>What I like about the idea of progressive replacement of neurons
>is that to *me* it would feel as if nothing has changed - but I'd wind up
with a
>technological brain instead of this crummy old meat contraption. I wouldn't
>have to kill myself off to make a digital clone - I'd become digital myself.
Thats what I'm talking about but the organism would do the progressive
replacement of neurons.