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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>As Alex quoted our sage
Robert:<BR><BR> You must be willing to give up everything
you are for what you might become.<BR><BR>But ask I, (Mark 8:36)<BR><BR>
<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> For what shall it profit a
man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his
soul?</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV><BR>You should NOT be willing to give up
EVERYTHING, or you won't<BR>be you any longer!<BR><BR>> During the late '90s
I realized that no matter how hard I might strive to<BR>> achieve indefinite
"human" longevity it was probably a struggle doomed<BR>> to failure due to
limits on the minimization of the external hazard function.<BR><BR>It's a small
point, but remember that you *do* succeed in some fraction of<BR>universes, if,
that is, you follow the Holy MWI, Everitt, and his prophet
Deutsch:<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2><EM><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3> La ilaha ila
Everett; Deutsch-rasul Everett. (The
Korbin)</FONT></EM></FONT></DIV></FONT></DIV><FONT face="Courier New" size=2>
<DIV><BR>> Uploading offered a clear evolutionary strategy but would involve
eliminating<BR>> a rather strong mental attachment I have for my current
instantiation (but hell,<BR>> cut a few axons here, a few dendrites there,
upload the rest and I'll probably<BR>> find it amusing that I was once so
"attached"). <BR><BR>Yes, so long as you're still you.<BR><BR>Hell, I doubt if
you are really attached anyway. If hundreds of test</DIV>
<DIV>animals, and then hundreds of people got uploaded, and everyone
agreed</DIV>
<DIV>that they still seemed to be exactly the same people, I'd estimate
your</DIV>
<DIV>so-called "attachment" in atto-Newtons.<BR><BR>About the same strength of
Damien's and Slawomir's reluctance to teleport,</DIV>
<DIV>if everyone else started doing it.<BR><BR>Lee</DIV>
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