<div dir="ltr">On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Alan Grimes <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ALONZOTG@verizon.net" target="_blank">ALONZOTG@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Kelly Anderson wrote:<div><div class="h5"><br>
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Because I change every day. That would just be one more such change. If I learn Chinese, do I stop being myself?<br>
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-Kelly<br>
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Don't try to confuse the issue. We are not talking about learning X, with it's attendant synaptic changes, we are talking about making arbitrary changes to a mindfile while simultaneously claiming that the integrity of the mindfile is the basis of identity.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
</font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div style>Sorry, wasn't trying to confuse the issue, but rather clarify my personal goals in uploading. If I am muddling with some special definition of something or other I apologize, that was not my intent. This is only about what I want out of the experience.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>My goals for uploading are, </div><div style>1) Losing the downsides of having a body without sacrificing any of the upsides. That is, I want to be able to inhabit any body shape/size that fits my purposes today, without pain, illness, aging and the like. I still want to have pleasure such as orgasms.</div>
<div style>2) To be able to make multiple copies of "me", have them participate in parallel experiences, then remerge those experiences into the main thread. That is, I want to remember thousands of "yesterdays" (as many as I can afford to compute) every new morning.</div>
<div style>3) learning and remembering more and better than I can with my current brain.</div><div style>4) thinking faster, not just in parallel, but faster in serial as well.</div><div style>5) experiencing true virtual reality as a virtual tenant (not just embodied, but also disembodied experience.)</div>
<div style>6) being comfortable enough about my conscious experience to argue with others that I am still conscious in a convincing fashion.</div><div style>7) Interacting more naturally with digital computers, and at a much higher rate.</div>
<div style>8) Probably a bunch of other things, if I thought about it longer.</div><div style><br></div><div style>I'm hopeful that computational bandwidth availability is a meritocracy, not a rich win everything. For example, I would love to be able to hire my brain out as a companion robot driver, so that many people could enjoy my company, and if they enjoyed it enough, I would be rented again as a friend.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>-Kelly</div><div style><br></div></div></div></div>