[MURG] School Idea

[Thomas Weber]

Hi Randall and others,
I have just had another look at the MURG web site and
it seems to be only partly active. I think that it is
more important to focus on giving some more life to
the web site. In a frontier research like this most of
the learning takes place by satysfying curiosity and
exchange of information so perhaps we don't need a
school after all. Trying to answer your question: the
school idea does not differ significantly from the
current academic approach. Therefore I suggest that
our constructive energy is focused on
minduploading.org 
There is an invitation for papers posted there:
*Defining the sense of self and personal identity.
     As this is down my alley I would like to submit
my  hypothesis on the subject. It is yet to be written
in a form of a few page essay. I think covering this
particular subject is essential to MU as we must
understand what the mind is before we can really
tinker with it. 
The other two subjects on that invitation are:
*A society of artificial intelligence and whole brain
emulation.
* Non destructive uploading.
Did we get any paper submissions? If so they should be
posted there.
Kind Regards,
Thomas Weber


 --- "Randal A. Koene" <rak at minduploading.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I don't wish to disparage the school idea in the
> least, but I do have a
> question: How does this significantly differ from
> the current academic
> approach?
> 
> The school idea seems to focus on the useful aspect
> of exchanging
> information about the specific topics of MU in an
> academic environment.
> 
> Traditionally, a specific topic such as MU would be
> something that is
> persued by one or several laboratories run by
> interested principal
> investigators. Those who wish to learn about the
> specifics (e.g. student,
> postdocs) would take positions in that lab for a
> while. Those who wish to
> exchange information would collaborate with the lab
> on research and
> publications.
> 
> In either case, you need funding for academic
> purposes and some people of
> enough renown that they can run the place. I'm just
> not sure how
> significant the difference is.
> 
> Cheers,
>        Randal
> 
> 
> 
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