[ExI] Bodies

[ablainey at aol.com]

 Exactly it isn't an either or arguement. You can still study the complexity of the real world from within a virtual existence. Or are we destroying all I/O with the real world? I think not.
As Ben says, there is nothing to stop you donning a meat suit for extra virtual activity!

I would like to image existence after uploading along the lines of 'Dr Manhattan', although personally i'd either wear pants or a comedy sized penis upgrade.

 Your 'mind' could be in more than one place at once and won't be limited to a single body. Meat or electrons.

A


 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Zaiboc <bbenzai at yahoo.com>
To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
Sent: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:08
Subject: Re: [ExI] Bodies


I'm with Lee on this one, only moreso.

Why do people assume that this is an either-or thing? That after uploading, you 
somehow lose the ability to interact with the world you 'left' (you won't leave 
it at all, really, your brain will just be made of someting different, and be 
much better at communication).

I think that's a good way of looking at it: migrating your consciousness into a 
better brain.  I'm sure there's no reason why that better brain couldn't be 
installed in an old-fashioned version 1 meat-body, just like the one you have 
now (If you really wanted that, for some unfathomable reason).

You'd be able to inhabit a real-world body when desired, and do all the stuff 
you presently do, and want to do, and more.  You'd be able to inhabit a 
completely virtual body, and experience a wide variety (understatement) of 
virtual environments.  You'd be able to combine the two, probably in ways we 
haven't even thought of yet.

I think it's important to appreciate that by the time we have the technology to 
emplement uploading, we'll be capable of building a much better version of our 
current meat-bodies, made of 'super-meat', or nanobots, or utility fog, or 
whatever.  We'll be capable of building (and living in) bodies that are pretty 
much anything we like, and of switching between experiencing life in such a body 
and a huge variety of virtual worlds at will.

I just don't understand the attitude that uploading somehow represents a 
/narrowing/ of choice, instead of a vast broadening of it (and I certainly don't 
understand the comment about granddad in a coma!).

Ben Zaiboc


      

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