[ExI] Nice Article on Brain Preservation

[Mike Dougherty]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:15 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>>…I strongly agree, even a plastic infused brain is not invulnerable and a
>> friendly institution might be able to help with problem #3.  John K Clark
>
> Ja, things will need to be far different from what they are today, far
> different, for us to hold out any hope of revival.  If somehow the
> technology became available for me to revive my great great grandfather,
> Isaac Newton Jones, I would be bringing a dependent into the world who might
> be even more of a financial burden than his great^3 grandson by the same
> name; delightful as that might be, it would likely be expensive.  Of course,
> if it is post-uploading, as I expect, none of the usual rules apply.  This
> is why I have been so interested in MBrains for so long; it looks to me like
> the logical next step of evolution.

I imagine the preserved will be a source of novelty.  In the
post-scarcity world, novelty may be more valuable than gold.

The faster we consume content, the more quickly it's all used-up.
Even with an explosion of self-publishing ["just another wordpress
blog"] there exists a degree of sameness between any new [sic] ideas
when every member of post-singularity civilization has seen the same
events through the same channels (albeit with geographic proximity
perspective latency measured in ms)

reanimated spike's sense of wonderment at post-singularity ants and
bees (for example) may well be worth the price of maintaining his
habitat... at least until RA-spike becomes uninteresting to the masses
and is forced to get a job to pay for his own CPU.  But hey, 15
minutes of fame is an extra long time for those who think orders of
magnitude faster than we do.