<div class="gmail_quote">2011/9/3 Florent Berthet <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:florent.berthet@gmail.com">florent.berthet@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I used to think that continuity of consciousness was obviously important for uploading. My reasoning was "if I create a copy of myself, and if I die in the process, that is as if I had created a clone of myself that would be able to live in exchange for my life. But I don't want my clone to survive, I want ME to survive."<div>
<br></div><div>So for me, a Star Trek teleporter that disassemble atoms and reassemble them in an other place was out of the question, because it would kill the "real" me.</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
Yes. All this message exactly reflects my view on the subject. </div></div><div><br></div><div>And the answer anyway is: let us introduce a cheap, "safe", teleport system as an alternative to flight transportation. How long would it take for "continuity" as opposed to "rebirth" to become the accepted truth but for a few tinfoil-hat ? Two weeks? Two days?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Another story is that of having your brain sliced in order to allow a machine to be more effective in "pretending" to be you. It is not a factual, it is a perceptual issue. </div><div><br></div>
<div>Aren't we inclined for that matter to avoid much more banal surgery even when it is certifiedly painless and less dangerous than inaction?</div><div><br></div>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>