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

[king-yin yan]

From: James Swayze <swayzej at attbi.com>
>Your all wet. You're thinking dry but you are for now wet, as in wet ware. You
>dream of sudden dry ware but it simply is not very likely... not for the
>majority. You need to get the video "Robosapiens" from The Discovery/Learning
>Channel. You see, what you propose is silly, binging around inside a box. The
>video "Robosapiens" he mainstream already has a vision for how we will
>eventually and ever so incrementally upload [meld with silicon life] and it
>doesn't include permanent exile to the box. By consequence of culture, societal
>more' evolution [i.e. slow acceptance of cyborgism], and economic pressure we
>_will_ replace sloooooowly the other organic substrates of the body along with
>the mind. It's not silly it's reality in the real world where ignorance and
>superstition still reign. People will let cyborgism sneak up on them but
>confronting them irreversible exile to the box, whether it has legs or not, too
>early will initiate a backlash. I think Ray Kurzweil has the most accurate
>realistic outline for how we will slowly move to silicon.

Hi James =)

What I'm proposing is not exactly 'irreversible exile to the box',
and also I think a body is still required, either synthetic or
regrown (but nothing unrealistic). Therefore I don't see gradual
replacement as to be so unconventional as to provoke backlashes.
Anyway I think backlash is superstition. We have enough real
problems to solve than to worry that...

I will check out the Robosapiens video and Kurzweil's vision
when I have time. Right now it appears to me gradual
replacement will be the mainstream. Maybe what we need
is a vision that includes interfacing with a synthetic/regrown
body.



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