<div dir="ltr"><br><div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-99e2661f-7fff-d9af-a1df-fd440a0863a3"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Fellow Transhumanists,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The </span><a href="https://www.gcrr.org/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Global Center for Religious Research</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is interested in presenting <a href="https://canonizer.com/videos/consciousness/">our video</a> in an upcoming conference on the simulation hypothesis.  They’ve asked that we add a chapter covering how the emerging consensus </span><a href="https://staging.canonizer.com/topic/88-Theories-of-Consciousness/6-Representational-Qualia" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Representational Qualia Theory</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> relates to the <a href="https://www.simulation-argument.com/">simulation argument</a>, and also, the <a href="https://new-god-argument.com/">new god argument</a>.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have now completed the narration for this “Implications for the “Simulation Hypothesis”’ chapter, starting on page 47 of our </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1REM15-ZXRTAh8HVMcWFlqZ4Ya7YIH6HRUMiYkW94TLE/edit#heading=h.nv44jisd2uhj" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">working draft of the video narration google doc</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.  If anyone is interested in helping improve the narration for this chapter in the next day or so, before we put it to video, that would be much appreciated.</span></p><br></span></div><div><span>Upward.</span></div><div><span> </span>Brent Allsop</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>