[ExI] after upload, what?

Wed Mar 27 00:30:32 UTC 2024

On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:24 AM Brent Allsop <brent.allsop at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> Yes, and I've struggled with calling it a "spirit world" also.
>

In The Clinic Seed "spirit world" is initially the simulation Suskulan sets
up to talk to the profoundly injured Zaba and to let her talk to her
parents.

[After warming up and transferring her consciousness back to her physical
body.]

"She was mildly distressed that she now had to voice talk to Suskulan, who
appeared as a projection, instead of "talking" directly to his spirit in
the spirit world she had inhabited.  Then she realized from her new
knowledge there was a way she could if she took a bit of the clinic with
her.  However, there wasn't much time before her parents came.

"Can I come back to visit even if I am not hurt?" she asked.

"Yes.  Anytime I don't have another patient."

"May I take the clinic's interface with me?"

"There is nothing so addictive . . ." thought Suskulan.

"You may."  Part of the cloud of nanomachines that had just left Zaba's
brain returned as a momentary haze.  Since they retained their memory of
where they had been it was a matter of a few minutes before the machines
reestablished their monitoring posts in Zaba's brain.

"I missed not being able to talk to you in the spirit world."   Zaba said
without voicing.  A wire frame image in Zaba's visual cortex overlaid the
physical projected image of Suskulan.

"Spirit talk does not reach as far as your garden."  Suskulan warned her.

'Spirit world talk' is obviously WIFI.

> But I think calling it this is the right thing to do.  And we should point
> out to everyone that redness and greenness are spiritual qualities, not
> properties of the strawberry.  And, if it wasn't for the majority of
> dualistic functionalists who claim redness and greenness aren't physical,
> it'd sure help.
>

I can't imagine Zaba and the other children and eventually all the
inhabitants of the tata (village) giving a hoot about redness or greeness.
At the end of the story they live in a world with green trees, but why
should they be concerned about such details?

> My primary target is religious irrational nut cases that believe there is
> some "spirit world" independent of the brain.  (i.e. most Mormons)
> I'm presenting a talk at the upcoming Mormon Transhumanist conference
> <https://mtaconf.org/> and I'm going all in with this "spirit world"
> terminology. Joseph Smith said many times (and it is in Mormon Scripture)
> "All spirit is matter which can only be discerned by purer eyes."
>

In the story, "spirit world" is a simulation of the real world.  People can
more between the real world and the simulation whenever they wish.

This is totally unlike the Mormon ideas.  As far as I know, nobody has ever
come back from their "spirit world."

Keith

If we can get the irrational idiots who believe in whoga booka BS, to use
> words like "spirit world" for something real and objectively observable,
> maybe this will convert them to be more rational, and hopeful for what
> uploading will really be like?  And hopefully it will increase their
> likeliness to be more motivated to do things like be cryonically
> preserved....
>
> Oh, my talk's title:
>
> "All spirit is matter"
> What will spiritual engineering and uploading be like?
>
>  TWIYH_1080P.mp4
> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1uvOyzqIKWLb2Wl2JtrWUzOQ2i7p0XKE1/view?usp=drive_web>
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 11:38 AM Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 10:09 AM Brent Allsop via extropy-chat <
>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My belief is that visual 3D visual knowledge of what we see is a
>>> critical part of what consciousness is.
>>> There is a spirit world in our heads composed of color qualities.
>>>
>>
>> The "spirit world" in _The Clinic Ssed_ was a euphemism for the simulated
>> world uploaded minds found themselves in.
>>
>> Keith
>>
>> When there is a lesion in the primary visual cortex the part of this
>>> spirit world represented in that region is gone, a gaping blind spot.
>>> "Bionic eyes" using things like the Utah Array and work being done by
>>> neura link can stimulate areas in the visual cortex, and get people to
>>> experience visual knowledge or pixels or white sometimes referred to as
>>> 'sprites'.  But they can't yet get color.  And until they know what is
>>> responsible for subjective color qualities, and can reproduce all the
>>> colors at will, subjectively, and fix these regions in the primary visual
>>> cortex, no simulation of it will work.
>>>
>>> My prediction is, once they discover which of all our descriptions of
>>> stuff in the brain is a description of redness, and stuff like that.  And
>>> once they can get colored 'sprites' to be experienced in the subjective
>>> visual space, this will revolutionize AI, to say nothing about repairing
>>> the visual cortex and its qualities.  I predict this kind of computation
>>> directly on intrinsic qualities like redness and greenness will change
>>> humanity forever.  I predict that people will look back on completely
>>> quality blind thinking like this as ideotic.  Everyone will be wondering
>>> how so many smart people could have been so quality blind for so long.
>>>
>>>
>>>  TWIYH_1080P.mp4
>>> <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U4mq0Tpi1dGugf-ZJB8YLH4k8Vaa3r5D/view?usp=drive_web>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 3:54 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 22, 2024 at 5:57 PM Travis Porco via extropy-chat <
>>>> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Forgive me for delurking,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No forgiveness needed.  Welcome to the chat!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> but perhaps the time has come to ask *how*
>>>>> to do an upload or upload-like activity right now, today, with
>>>>> existing technology...extracting enough memory and identity to
>>>>> generate an authorized continuing agent for yourself, without being
>>>>> distracted by worries about whether it is "really you" and so forth.
>>>>> As I follow these discussions I find the philosophical worries merely
>>>>> lead to inaction, and in some cases, contain elements dismissive of
>>>>> the value of lives.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well...there is one option with today's technology, but it'd be heck of
>>>> impractically expensive for a human brain, though I hear something like
>>>> this might be being done with insect brains.
>>>>
>>>> Map out and simulate each neuron, one by one.  Make a good enough
>>>> (which likely requires near-perfect in practice) software simulation of the
>>>> neuron, including its synapses (its inputs and outputs).  Connect these
>>>> neuron simulations together, in the exact same fashion as the actual
>>>> neurons are connected.  Run the whole thing on a powerful enough computer -
>>>> which involves massive parallelism, even for insect simulations, thus the
>>>> expense.  There also needs to be blank/spare/extra hardware to simulate
>>>> growth of new neurons over time (not as many as already exist in the
>>>> running brain, but a nonzero amount, with a potentially indefinite cap if
>>>> the simulated brain lives forever; more hardware can be added over time to
>>>> support this, but this might put a cap on the practical maximum speed-up if
>>>> the uploaded brain is to run significantly faster than the original).
>>>>
>>>> This misses input from the rest of the body, but it's a start (and can
>>>> help narrow down exactly what the rest of the body's inputs are).
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