Re: Predictions by Kurzweil

From: Darin Sunley (rsunley@escape.ca)
Date: Thu Feb 17 2000 - 00:58:13 MST


John Clark wrote:

> Brent Allsop <allsop@fc.hp.com> Wrote:
>
> >"what is it like to be a bat?"
>
> Someday you might know what it's like for Brent Allsop to be a bat
> but you'll never know what it's like for a bat to be a bat because if
> you did then you wouldn't be Brent Allsop anymore.
>

What if I ask what it's like to be a bat that remembers being a human and asking
what it's like to be a bat?

To ride the Diaspora hobbyhorse again, like having a 2-dimensional visual cortex
but remembering having a 4 dimensional one.

Darin Sunley
rsunley@escape.ca



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