[MURG] Cortex activty

[digfarenough]

>But people did argue with it, for quite a while. It's
only recently 
>that that has died down and the idea of molecular
manufacturing has 
>become generally accepted. And even so, there is a
lot of 
>disagreement about what exactly it will allow us to
do. Even 
>"Nanosystems" includes a lot of hand-waving.

as I know nothing of this, I accept that it's true.. I
would like to know where some of the hand-waving in
"Nanosystems" is though.. I know that some people have
rather high expecations of nanotech, but I try to keep
a reasonable view of the things they'll be able to
do..

> That book has been firmly closed for a while now.
There is no part 
> of the mind which is not affected by some region of
the brain -- and 
> in most cases, we know what that region is and
roughly how it 
> interacts with the other regions.

you have to prove it both ways, not just brain affects
mind..
one consideration would be qualia.. why do you
experience red as that particular sensation as opposed
to blue? why does middle-C sound the way it does? or
better, why does the interval of a fifth sound that
way? I'd list more, but you surely got the picture
before I started drawing it

> But not critics that anyone we care about, will care
about.

quite right.. well, I remain a critic of uploading..
to continue believing in something without questioning
it doesn't seem save to me

frankly, until I'm uploaded into a computer myself
I'll still likely have lingering doubts.. and even
after that I may wonder if I'm still functioning in a
way the bio-me would be happy with :)

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