[ExI] Relativistic Uploads

[Stefano Vaj]

On 17 October 2011 12:23, The Avantguardian <avantguardian2020 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I have a thought pertaining to the oft argued idea that space travel would
> be unpopular with posthumans because of subjective time slowing down to due
> to the higher clockspeed of a solid state substrate.
>

The only obvious scenarios for slowing down or suspending one's mental time
(say, sleep, hypnosis, etc.) are:
- boredom;
- as a byproduct of a procedure aimed at keeping you alive for a time in the
future.

Provided that neither is applicable, It has always been very unclear to me
why we should strive to increase our mental speed on earth and would
deliberately reduce it elsewhere, including during travels...

-- 
Stefano Vaj
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