[ExI] Question from a neophyte

[John Grigg]

Natasha wrote:
To assume Moravec's vision of uploads (by the way a more contemporary phrase
for transferring the brain's content to an artificial system is "whole brain
emulation"), is the entry point and the ground rule of transhumanism is
simply not correct.
>>>

I remember being in a Immortality Institute chatroom where a *19* year-old
young man went on and on about how he wanted to "get rid of his damn meat
body and be uploaded!"  Transhumanist body image problems, anyone??

John
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