[MURG] new Road Map draft

[cat13 at illrepute.org]

"king-yin yan" <y.k.y at lycos.com> writes:

> >> >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.

Ah.  I'd thought you meant that the discarding would happen
after uploading, rather than after the natural death of the body.
In that case, yes, eventually the body would probably be buried/
cremated/whatever (unless we get into replacing the organic 
substrate of the rest of the body, but that's just silly).