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<A title=ismirth@gmail.com href="mailto:ismirth@gmail.com">Isabelle Hakala</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, April 04, 2009 4:44
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [ExI] Mind Uploading article
in Wikipedia</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>One of the things that occurs to me about mind uploading is
this... I would want to upload my mind, and let that 'simulation' run for,
oh... say a decade, without any outside influences, and me still living in the
outside world, and then compare notes with my uploaded self. What had each of
us learned different? Did we still agree on things? What had changed? Etc. For
me that would be an important step in feeling like it would be worth-while to
do it again at the 'end' of my life so as to preserve myself, and then live on
from there. It would answer a lot of questions for me. I believe in something
one might consider to be a 'soul', and it doesn't bother me to think that a
simulacrum of myself might be running around someplace that may or may not
have my 'soul' attached to it as well. Either it would have a part of my soul
attached to it, which would be fine, or it wouldn't and then it wouldn't make
any difference at all.<BR><BR>If this experiment were run, one would be able
to see if the simulacrum finds life on the 'inside' as satisfying as the
person on the outside does.<BR><BR>Just a thought:)<BR><BR><BR
clear=all>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<BR>Isabelle Hakala<BR>"Any person who says
'it can't be done' shouldn't be interrupting the people getting it
done."<BR>"Do every single thing in life with love in your heart."<BR><BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 1:18 PM, John K Clark <SPAN
dir=ltr><<A
href="mailto:jonkc@bellsouth.net">jonkc@bellsouth.net</A>></SPAN>
wrote:<BR>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid">I
want to thank Giulio Prisco, I did not know Wikipedia had an article
on<BR>mind uploading. The article is actually quite good, and it says two
things<BR>that I've been saying for well over a decade. First it
says:<BR><BR>[Mind Uploading] "denies the vitalist view of human life and
consciousness."<BR><BR>But of course nearly everyone, even most people on
this list believe in the<BR>vitalist view.<BR><BR>It then says:<BR><BR>"The
prospect of uploading human consciousness in this manner raises
many<BR>philosophical questions involving identity, individuality and the
soul."<BR><BR>But of course nearly everyone, even most people on this list
believe in the<BR>soul.<BR><BR>John K
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