[ExI] destructive uploading was AI class

[Eugen Leitl]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 07:12:31PM -0700, G. Livick wrote:
> I've wondered what it would be like, how it would impact a person  
> psychologically, to be a thinking entity without a physical body.  What  

Why no physical body? How do you expect to be able to sense and manipulate
virtual and physical environments? (Moreover, while we monkeys have pretty
flexible body images, there are limits).

> would we do all day?  Email people?

You could definitely send a suspended image of a person over a data
link. Just don't attach too many, or they'll bounce, and InterPlaNet
roaming is crazy expensive.

> FutureMan
>
> On 9/1/2011 9:30 AM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Adrian Tymes<atymes at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> What Eugen said: there are good odds that the first upload will be
>>> created from a cryonics patient.
>> This makes a lot of sense to me, though I haven't thought about this
>> idea prior to today. A live brain has an interest in preserving it's
>> life, while a frozen one does not have this interest actively (though
>> admittedly latently). To upload a whole living brain you would kind of
>> have to keep it working through the process to give the patient the
>> idea that it was a continuous process. Going to sleep and waking up
>> uploaded seems a little disconcerting, how do I know I'm still me?
>>
>> A more gradual transformation while in a waking state doesn't seem
>> nearly so frightening psychologically. That's more advanced technology
>> than the destructive scanning of a frozen brain tied to the building
>> of a machine that isn't yet turned on.  So yes, I think I do believe
>> the first upload will be from a cryonics patient.
>>
>> Does anyone else have clear reasons why they think this might be so?
>> Is there a financial incentive to resurrect people into an uploaded
>> state? I assume that this would be allowed under cryonic contracts,
>> right?
>>
>> This is fascinating. I haven't been a big fan of cryonics to this
>> point, for myself anyway, but this almost persuades me that there
>> might be something to this approach.
>>
>> -Kelly
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