<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 24/05/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Lee Corbin</b> <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Now remember that even anything as primitive as an orginal human<br>being (uploaded, no doubt) will still have total formal control over<br>his emotions. I guess you want to be a happy cat. Well, why not be<br>an even happier advanced human and be able to appreciate it more?
</blockquote><div><br>Why not just have the happiness at no cost? You might say, because being an intelligent being has a certain je ne sais quoi, adding richness to the raw emotion of happiness. However, if you have complete access to your mind you will be able to pin down this elusive quality and then give it to yourself directly, in large amounts. And if that won't quite do either, because it isn't the real thing, well, you can just work out what extra positive feeling the real thing would have provided and give *that* to yourself directly.
<br><br></div></div><br>-- <br>Stathis Papaioannou