[MURG] minduploading from within

[king-yin yan]

Ed Minchau wrote:
>The talk of funding is necessary, to a point; but, it
>must be understood that once we finally  upload a
>human being successfully, everything changes.  The
>result would not be just an upload, but a _human-level
>artificial intelligence_.  The person could be copied
>easily, once you have one, you could make more - each
>that same person, but on divergent parallel timelines.

Why would you assume everyone will be interested in
making copies? I'm into fusion. You don't have to fuse
with me though, calm down =)

>What would money mean to an uploaded person?  What
>would it mean to a mind that could be transmitted to a
>robotic body on the moon?

I don't see much difference. Information cannot exist
independent of matter and energy, and hence it will
depend on the economy and society just the same.

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>Thomas Weber wrote:
>> > 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.

Hi Thomas =)

You want to drop sexual instincts, I may not. What transpires
is MU is probably going to be very personal. It's just like how
we make use of our PCs differently.

>> 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.

Hehe it sounds like your current life sucks.

YKY


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