From: Dossy (dossy@panoptic.com)
Date: Sat May 04 2002 - 22:00:03 MDT
On 2002.05.04, outlawpoet - <outlawpoet@stealth.hell.com> wrote:
> my last post on this subject was a little ill-thought and rude. I'm at
> work, and feeling a little combative.
>
> I'd like to apologise for the tone. I'm sorry, Dossy, I didn't meant
> for that email to come out that way.
No need to ever apologize to me. I'm usually orders of magnitude
worse and probably should apologize a lot more than I do.
It wasn't meant to be baiting, although I can see why you say
it was. I genuinely meant to suggest that there already exist
"worlds" so to speak that are very different than our own,
yet many of us (myself included) don't actively seek them out
while we claim to be very keenly interested in such things.
Your point about a "deeper sense of newness" is of course
the difference, but I was suggesting that the nature of the
matter itself (seeking out newness) isn't a matter of
degree -- people inclined to do so do it on many different
scales.
I always wonder "what if the world that you wake up in
is far worse than the one you left," but as Harvey pointed
out ... you can always kill yourself then, if you feel that
it's so far gone that it really isn't worth living in.
So, this really becomes a non-issue.
I guess I've got another question for all the would-be
cryonauts out there:
Would you rather be uploaded into a simulator to live in until
you could be downloaded back into a wet body _OR_ frozen in
cryogenic suspension until your own wet body could be "upgraded"
or "repaired"?
If you could be uploaded, would you prefer to stay there or
would you prefer to get back into a wet body?
-- Dossy
--
Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com
Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
"He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own
folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)
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