From: GBurch1@aol.com
Date: Sat Oct 02 1999 - 12:57:10 MDT
In a message dated 99-09-30 14:23:34 EDT, rhanson@gmu.edu (Robin Hanson)
wrote:
> >Do people in thinking about cryonics select between the various
> >options I can see: ...
> > (b) Reanimate using the first upload technology. ...
>
> That is my choice. I expect the first unfrozen will be uploads,
> and the first uploads will be the unfrozen.
Same here. If I have to go down for the cold sleep, I don't expect to be
initially reanimated as a meat machine. And, having the advantages and
options available to an upload, it seems hard to imagine choosing the
limitations of an original model (even augmented) organic human body again.
Greg Burch <GBurch1@aol.com>----<gburch@lockeliddell.com>
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