<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 9:10 AM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Let's put it this way. Can you imagine any kind of upload process<br>
that could not make you more intelligent?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Quite easily: one that essentially just substitutes a vast virtual reality for the reality my meat body used to experience, as depicted in several movies. Tron comes to mind quickly: the person's body was completely deconstructed and they existed only as an electronic consciousness, with apparently equal intelligence before and after.</div></div></div>