From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Sun Mar 31 2002 - 00:06:44 MST
Robert J. Bradbury
> If Ray is suggesting nanobots the size of neurons that is one
> *huge* nanobot!
More like a microbot.
Thanks for the info.
I think he said 'blood cell' sized - still pretty big, I suppose, but
smaller than most neurons.
> > If all this technology is available, presumably one is able to fully
repair
> > the human body anyway - so why bother with upload?
>
> Because it is doubtful you will be able to get too much additional
> nanotech-based computational capacity into the brain with its
> limited cooling capacity. You will always be able to tell
> the upgraded humans with outmoded attachments to their "bodies"
> because they will have elephant ears and (big) butterfly wings.
>
> Robert
Bless you. That's a lovely post-human picture for a sunday night...dumbo the
elephant crossed with tinkerbell. :-) That aside - I'd neglected the cooling
issue. One way or another the upload scenario is becoming more real as time
goes by. AI seems, to me, to have a role as an enabler - a sort of scout
party for the humans to follow.
Not really on topic with Chalmers' stuff, but interesting.
cheers
colin
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