[MURG] Re: personal history

[Thomas Weber]

Hi there,
As I now wish to participate more at the MURG I would
like to add my own personal history to the "Personal
histories of involvement with mind uploading".
I am still working on the paper(s) I promised but I
think some more self introduction is a good starting
point. Thank you in advance,
Kind Regards,
Thomas





 I was born in 1961 in Poland. My parents were both
> doctors of medicine. My father was a lungs
> specialist
> best in town and my mother was loved by all children
> in town because she was the best pediatrician. The
> town was somewhat grotesque. The main employer was
> the
>  "Metal Factory" with  big contracts for the Warsaw
> Pact countries. There was so little motor traffic
> nad
> it was so safe otherwise that I was free to explore
> the "whole world". No one defined the boudaries of
> my
> playgroud for me. My very first memory is somewhat
> unique. I was about 4 years old, some 3 miles away
> from my home, unattended exploring the world. I was
> all by myself with no one telling me which way to go
> or where to look. The world was black and white. I
> remember asking a question "what is it all?" Then I
> observed that the world is a kind  of binary system
> made of me and the environment. I wouldn't wonder
> about it if it wasn't me being here in the first
> place. So what is me? I was new and made of aluminum
> bones, hydraulic drives, some electronic boards and
> other shiny guts. I also felt strongly that I was
> placed in this environment for a good purpose.
> When I explained my anatomy to my parents they
> pulled
> a book from  their medical library. It had a lot of
> nice pictures. By the age of 12 I had a good
> knowledge
> of the human anatomy and physiology and wanted to be
> a
> doctor just like my parents. Biology was my
> favourite
> subject in school. I never stopped asking "what is
> it
> all".
> When I was 13 we moved to Torun, a city with a great
> history, home town to Nicolas Copernicus. My older
> sister studied physics and astronomy at the
> University
> of Nicolas Copernicus. 
> After high school I studied transport engineering
> for
> tree years and at the age of 22 I left Poland for
> Germany where I became a citizen based on my partly
> german ancestry. While in Nurnberg, Bavaria I
> studied
> arts and philosophy. Then in 1987 I arrived in
> Vancouver, Canada to pursue a carrier in aviation.
> Keeping on asking "what is it all?" I realized that
> what I am missing seriously in life is the real
> experience. In 1994 I started a business
> constructing
> vehicular prototypes. My clients recognised me as an
> inventor. I was getting my hands dirty and burnt and
> had fun learning that the real intelligent work is
> that with hands and mind at once.
> This is where my real interest in mind uploading
> started. While welding with my hands and eyes with
> my
> mind I kept on realizing that the real essence of
> our
> lives is our unique creative work. If our creative
> work is our mind, if the purpose of the brain is to
> coordinate creative work then if we build a system
> that will continue our work we can claim we had
> uploaded the mind. My fascination with the concept
> kept on growing. In 1999 I discovered that the mind
> can be understood as a biocomputer program and this
> is
> when I started researching AI on the internet. My
> main
> interest is in defining what the mind, intelligence,
> consciousness is and how it works. If we understand
> the physics and mechanics of the mind then the rest
> is
> easy. 
> 
>
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