[ExI] The atoms red herring. =|

[Ben Zaiboc]

Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:

> Samantha Atkins wrote:

> >> Uploading to an "environment" as you call it
> inherently, inevitably,
> >> severely, and permanently diminishes that
> opportunity. =(
> 
> > That is mere opinion.
> 
> The subset cannot contain more than the set.


That's the wrong diagram.

Think of two intersecting sets instead.  The Union of
the two sets is greater than one of them.

Nobody (except you) is claiming that uploading would
be a one-way trip to a virtual world totally
disconnected from the rest of reality.

Ben Zaiboc