<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just as biology is</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">proof that nanotechnology is possible. ben</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:small"><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Would you elaborate on that just a tiny bit for me? What is it about biology? We are assuming the analogy is correct. bill w</font></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 8, 2022 at 8:30 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On 08/02/2022 01:46, BillK wrote:<br>
> If a mind can be run on hardware -<br>
<br>
Well, it's the hardware we have now that has made minds possible. What <br>
is the brain, if not hardware? Ok, it's squishy, but that's not what we <br>
mean when we distinguish between hardware and software. You could say <br>
"non-organic hardware", but who's to say that we have to use non-organic <br>
hardware to construct future mind substrates? Polymer brains might well <br>
be possible. It could be that going down a silicon and electrons route <br>
wouldn't be such a good idea, given how vulnerable that would be to <br>
cosmic rays and such.<br>
<br>
The existence of our current brains and minds is all the proof needed <br>
that uploading is at least theoretically possible. Just as biology is <br>
proof that nanotechnology is possible.<br>
<br>
Ben<br>
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