<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large">Taking things further - and later on, I imagine -, neural interfaces 
would be useful in the process of 'gradual uploading', where rather than
 replacing parts of the brain, or 'scanning' it, which are the usual 
uploading ideas, we instead expand the mind into non-biological brain 
machinery over a period of time, so that eventually the original 
biological brain becomes only a small (and ultimately redundant) part of
 what produces the mind.  At some point, you'd be able to ditch the 
original brain without even noticing it.<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large"><font color="#3d85c6">So we all have the Superman fantasy:  better body, better brain, etc.  Everything I know about psychology says this will happen:  it will become the new normal.  We will adjust to it and be no happier than when we started.  It's sort of like heroin addiction - even money.  $75k is the upper limit of what makes people happy.  Above that there is no improvement in happiness.  Fact.bill w<br>

</font></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:44 PM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kelly Anderson<br>

<br><b><span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></b></span></p><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">>…</span>I think I'd just remap my sexual pleasure centers to the tips of my fingers so that I enjoyed programming more. ;-)<span style="color:#1f497d"> –</span>Kelly<span style="color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">No way.  If I did that, I would waste too much time typing off.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><u></u><u></u></font></span></span></p>

<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p>

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