[MURG] School Idea

[Randal A. Koene]

Hi Thomas,

Your submission is more than welcome! Please do send in a paper.

You're right that the site is in dire need of some maintenance (time is so
prescious). Unfortunately, we never got around to sending out a Call for
Papers to any mailing lists, so that is also still pending.

I have a terribly busy weel ahead, but I'll schedule some time for this
June 1 & 2. Meanwhile, if you could write up your ideas, that would be
great.

Cheers,
       Randal

On Thu, 22 May 2003, Thomas Weber wrote:

> 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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