[ExI] uploads and mariachi bands

[Tara Maya]

No one can have an experience at Will if the circumstances of that experience aren’t real; they can only have the illusion of an experience.

You could recreate a memory or a fantasy of hearing a mariachi band but unless the band of other people were there, you’d not be experiencing the band itself only the simulacra of the band.

A painting is not the thing it portrays.

> On Feb 13, 2024, at 02:17, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
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>> On 13/02/2024 00:37, spike wrote:
>> For instance… what if… I upload, and realize I never have experiences 
>> like one I remember with crystal vision, the way I felt in Feb 2024 at 
>> Berkeley, listening to a mariachi band musically seduce young ladies 
>> into situations where a next generation of meat-being is given a chance 
>> to come into existence?  Regardless of how good that uploaded existence 
>> is, Imagine I miss that Berkeley mariachi feeling so much, I want to see
>>  to it that the feelings I had yesterday are given a chance to be felt 
>> again, into the future, indefinitely.
> 
> Spike, what would prevent you, as an upload, having these experiences?
> 
> If you realise you happen to never have any experiences you recall having as a biological being, you can arrange to have them again, at will, as an upload.
> 
> If some mariachi band and a suitable couple haven't also uploaded, or have moved on from those behaviours, you could always recreate the experiences you were missing in your own mind. I see no reason anyone would not be able to have any experiences they wanted to, as an upload. Just as we currently have AI systems that you can give a description to, and they can create an image, still or moving, of what you've asked for, I expect there will be systems that can take a memory and turn it into an interactive experience for uploads.
> 
> I fully expect that uploads will be able to have any experience any un-uploaded person can have, and then some.
> 
> Ben
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