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Dave Sill wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:19 PM, John Grigg
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:possiblepaths2050@gmail.com"><possiblepaths2050@gmail.com></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I'm curious to know how many of you believe an actual biological
reanimation (and not simply a scan & simulation) will be possible at
some point (and if that is preferable to other options). I'm just not
content with having a copy made.
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Firstly, I don't think scanning and simulating a brain is simple.
By reanimation do you mean "simply" thawing and nano-repairing a brain
and implanting it in a cloned body? Or would a nano-constructed
replica from a scan qualify? The latter, of course, would "just" be a
copy.
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I disagree with the notion of "just a copy". But I don't want to
reopen the never ending continuity of identity debate at this time. :)<br>
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Personally, I don't care a whole lot about the platform on which my
consciousness is running, as long as it *is* running.
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Me too. I care more about the quality of the running instance, its
completeness and performance, than I care about platform. I would
personally be delighted to be reanimated into a really good future
upload space with options to create one or more bodies of my choice
(human, android, defies description, whatever) to run around in
physical space when I so desired. But that's me. :)<br>
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- samantha<br>
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