[ExI] upload, download, all around the townload

[Anton Sherwood]

On 2025-04-22 13:47, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat wrote:
> The level of technology that we're envisaging should be easily capable 
> of recreating a brain from the recorded information. Not that I see that 
> as being a very good option. There will surely be better physical 
> systems that could serve to embody an upload. I'm thinking along the 
> lines of utility fog brains and bodies, but there will be other options 
> too, I'd think.

How much thought has been given to operating systems for fog?
I can't see controlling foglets directly with my mind!

> [...]  It could well be that shortly 
> after being uploaded, people would change so much that downloading again 
> would be impractical, and creating a new, synthetic brain/body would be 
> the only practical solution.

The division of our brains into lobes presumably limits long-range 
neuronal links, and I wonder whether that limitation helps us. 
Uploading into a "flat space", in which such speedbumps are erased, is 
one way to make a mind not fit into the old mold.

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