[MURG] Re: MURG digest, Vol 1 #180 - 1 msg

[James Swayze]

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>    1. Re: new Road Map draft (Ed Minchau)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2003 08:41:46 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Ed Minchau <spider_boris at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [MURG] new Road Map draft
> To: murg at minduploading.org
> Reply-To: murg at minduploading.org
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>  --- king-yin yan <y.k.y at lycos.com> wrote: > From:
> cat13 at illrepute.org
> <snikt>
> > >a) why must the person be immobile if the wires
> > aren't physically
> > >attached to the computer?
> > >b) the biological body won't necessarily be
> > discarded after
> > >uploading
> >
> > a) The wireless idea may work, I'll be content with
> > living with
> > a long cable attached to me.
> > b) That's weird. No comment.
> >
> >
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> hi yky,
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> B) is not as weird as it seems, if a NON-destructive
> upload procedure is used instead.  Picture
> free-roaming robots, smaller than neurons by an order
> of mgnitude or more, which perform the equivalent
> function of scanning the brain and transmitting
> information to an external device; they would not need
> to destroy tissue to do so.  In the end, the original
> would be left alive, and the upload would exist in
> another substrate.  No need to destroy the tissue
> means no requirement for body disposal.
>
> :) ed
>

I'm in favor of and prefer this method but to be precise keep in mind that
you'd need one at least or maybe several per each neuron, in the minimum,
to be able to keep up with the live mind's infinitesimal ongoing changes
to neuron physical shape which after all IS the main, so far as we know at
this point, method for neurons to store and transfer information. This
does not even take into account chemical transfer potentials and otherwise
yet unknown methods neurons use to communicate and store information.

James
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