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On 08/30/2011 10:51 AM, Stefano Vaj wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 30 August 2011 18:28, Adrian Tymes <span
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What Eugen said: there are good odds that the first upload
will be<br>
created from a cryonics patient. Another possible scenario is<br>
Turing's thought experiment of replacing the brain one part at
a<br>
time (he specified one neuron at a time) until you eventually
have a<br>
complete upload.<br>
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You cannot go any more "destructive" than that. <br>
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So, instead of trying to distill some metaphysical differences
between the Moravec process and the Turing one, I suspect that it
would be better to admit frankly that whenever there is no "gene
whisper" to lead us, the metaphors we choose to adhere to as far
as "survival" and its definitions are concerned are fundamentally
arbitrary and/or culturally determined.<br>
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The question itself seems arbitrary and meaningless. Perhaps
instead of asking "is the upload me, or even legally me" it would be
better to ask, is that upload person given [sufficiently] full
rights and can I declare it my primary heir? What you feel about
whether that person is "you" or not is a somewhat orthogonal and
rather subjective matter.<br>
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- samantha<br>
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