[MURG] Uploading via memory implants?

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 05:06:43PM -0500, Thomas Weber wrote:

> I agree that transfering all data from the mind will
> pose a serious problem. In my late contemplations on
> the subject I have come to believe that perhaps we
> don't need to transfer all information contained in
> the brain, as long as we transfer the sense of self.

Ah, you probably mean the soul. Or spirit. But you of course you know we need
a +12 angel-blessed transsubstantiantion engine for that?
These are mightily hard to find.

> Notice that in the course of our lives we constantly
> learn new information and delete (in human language we
> call it "forget") old information. So we lose plenty
> of information on daily basis without even thinking
> about being uploaded, and this does not affect our
> sense of self at all. So I believe there must be some
> maximum information we may lose, and some minimum we
> must keep to maintain the sense of self. If that
> minimum is reached in the brain computer transfer -
> the mind uploading experiment may be considered
> successful, and if it is not reached .... we will have
> a problem with a comatose underupload.

So it seems "enough data" is empirically pretty trivial to verify.

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