[ExI] Destructive uploading.

[Jeff Davis]

This issue is rehashed here on a regular basis.  While some may find
it tedious, I always enjoy it, as there's always something new.
Stefano's post is the perfect example.  Masterful and original (as in
not overtly stated in prior discussions, at least, not so's I
noticed).

"...when confronted with the prospective of having your brains sliced,
your genes whisper "no, no..."

Magnificent.  That one's going in my sig file.  Thanks, Stefano.

May I slice the s off of your "brains"?

Best, Jeff Davis

2011/9/3 Stefano Vaj <stefano.vaj at gmail.com>:
> 2011/9/3 Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com>
>>
>> The biological pattern, in the same sense as you have the "same" body you
>> were born with even though you have replaced just about every atom within
>> it
>> at least once since birth.
>
> Yes, I am inclined to agree with you, but let me once more stress that
> "survival" is really an ethological, not a philosophical, issue.
> So, it cannot be dismissed out of hand the fact that when confronted with
> the prospective of having your brains sliced, your genes whisper "no, no",
> no matter how defective the rationalisation of such feelings might be.
> On the other hand, I understand that by "non-destructive uploading" some
> means "creation of an emulation which is going to run alongside with the
> 'original'".
> This remains of course an interesting experiment, not to mention a good
> metaphor for reproduction - which is an instinct as well, or even better,
> rooted than survival - but of course it defeats the idea of uploading as a
> metaphor for survival, since from the first instant the remaining original
> becomes, or remains, a distinct centre of Darwinian interests from its
> upload, which is in principle no more consoled by the continuing operation
> of that upload than we currently are by the survival of our genetic
> offspring or of our works, country, business, school of thought, etc.
>
> --
> Stefano Vaj