[MURG] new Road Map draft

[Ed Minchau]

 --- king-yin yan <y.k.y at lycos.com> wrote: > >> >b)
the biological body won't necessarily be
> >> discarded after
> >> >uploading
> 
> >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.
> 
> But what's the point of it? The original would still
> face the problem of biological 'death', which is
> what
> I'm most concerned with.
> 
> 

OK, fair enough.  However, it must be pointed out that
even in a gradual-upload scenario, there is no such
thing as "immortality".  The heat-death of the
universe will get all of us, eventually.

ed

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