[MURG] minduploading from within

[Thomas Weber]

Hi everyone,
I (Thomas Weber) have been reading the MURG emails for
quite a while with a great interest. To keep it short
I get straight to the point. I think the whole
discussion while doing an excellent job exploring mind
uploading from the neuroscience end totally ignores or
overlooks the psychological aspect of it. In my
opinion the idea of uploading movie stars or their
pets for money is totally flawed and will never work.
Why? Because mind uploading is something that only you
can do on your own behalf from within your own brain.
Only once the mind has a sound understanding of itself
as a bio-computer program it can start re-programing
itself for post biological existence. Since the mind
will operate in a post biological environment and be
faced with practically infinite opportunities profound
mind upgrading will be necessary. Having a bio-human
mind in the post human reality will be a severe
handicap. Therefore some essential parts of the mind
will have to be dropped: 
1. Fear or concern about health and death.
2. All instincts related to bio-food aquisition,
consumption and bio-processing.
3. Sexual instincts
4. Sleep
5. All emotions and feelings toward other humans as we
experience them now. A post human will be a be a
different being with it,s own emotions and feeligs

probably more profound.
And there is of course more for further discussion.
The approach which I would like to suggest is
SELECTIVE MIND UPLOADING. And it goes like this:
1. The mind strives to fully understand it's
"psycho-anatomy"
2. The mind makes a commitment to advance into a
higher being. Such a commitment is attached to to a
specific task(s) the mind wishes to accomplish. For
many of us this may be related to our professional,
academic or artistic capacities.
3. The mind(program) must make a decision which parts
are to be dropped(deprogrammed) and which to be
upprogrammed.
4. The mind comes to MURG asking for help.

A few words about myself - I am 42 y.o. My background
is in aviation and engineering. I currently work on a
sophisticated aircraft design. When uploaded what I
want to leave behind are all my bio-human griefs,
fears, resentmens, guilts etc., all bio-human insticts
as listed above and a few more unnecessary things.
What I want to remain and expand on is the artist,
designer and engineer who will be programmed to create
the greatest aircraft he can possibly imagine.
Kind Regards to you all,
Thomas Weber

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