[MURG] Uploading via memory implants?

[Thomas Weber]

Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:26:03PM -0500, Thomas Weber wrote:

> Thomas:
> I notice you are being sarcastic lately, and I am not
> sure if I gave you a real reason for that.

Not really sarcasm. I consider whole body emulation to 
be an engineering project. You can't solve technical issues with armchair
reasoning, or philosophy, they're a waste of time at best, give you wrong
leads at worst.

We've been going in circles like these for many years now, and I guess I'm
getting impatient.

-- 
Eugen* Leitl 

 

Dear Eugen,

I hear you and I see why you are getting impatient. My background is in transport engineering and I had the privilege to witness how some engineering projects were completed and some were not. The only difference between an armchair philosophy and an engineering / scientific project is action and progress.  

I am very glad to see that serious consideration is being given to the MURG website. If you consider the whole body emulation / mind uploading to be an engineering project - then it should be maintained that way. My personal impression is that most, if not all discussions on MURG over all those years have been an armchair philosophy. What I would like to suggest is that the discussions on MURG are analyzed, summaries are made and posted on the web-site. This would create foundations on which to base subsequent discussions, and it would ensure knowledge build up.  It seems this was the intention from the very beginning, but it was poorly implemented and the website has been neglected for years.

Kind Regards, 

Thomas Weber                                                                         

 

 

 




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