[MURG] Re: MURG digest, Vol 1 #182 - 2 msgs -- What's really silly

[cat13 at illrepute.org]

James Swayze <swayzej at attbi.com> writes:

> > 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).
> >
> > --__--__--
> >
> 
> Your all wet. You're thinking dry but you are for now wet, as in wet ware.

I think I wasn't very clear.  What I consider "silly" is for us, right now,
to get sidetracked by a major effort in replacing, as you put it, the "wetware"
of the rest of the body.  I think that, limited as we are, MURG's history and
stated goal of focussing on the brain and only on the brain is a much wiser
course of action.  To rephrase, all I'm saying is that non-neural prosthesis is,
for the most part, off-topic.  It's on topic when we discuss, say, philosophy or
ramifications of MU, sure, but it isn't our main purpose.