[ExI] Beyond Meat

[spike at rainier66.com]

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From: extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> On Behalf Of Ben
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Beyond Meat

On 03/11/2020 20:39, bill w wrote:
> Y'all do realize that most people believe in God, right?  So uploading 
> is going to be regarded as extremely unnatural...

Ja.  But the notion of god and unnatural are not necessarily synonymous.

There are at least two (that I know of, perhaps more) fundamentalist
Christian religions which treat the human body as a machine, which can die,
then later be reconstructed in the form of a perfectly identical copy (with
different atoms from the original but otherwise indistinguishable.)  A
particular religion I am thinking of has no heartburn with the notion of
uploading.  It even has a motive: the uploads could convince the meat-blobs
to get religion.

>...and getting classified 
> as a person is going to be really difficult.  When it happens there'd 
> better be plenty of backup, because the uploads are going to get 
> turned off, if many people have their say, or take matters into their 
> own hands.   bill w

Ja, an upload wouldn't need to be classified as a person.  I agree with you
on having multiple backups.

spike