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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/02/2024 00:37, spike wrote:<br>
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<pre>For instance… what if… I upload, and realize I never have experiences
like one I remember with crystal vision, the way I felt in Feb 2024 at
Berkeley, listening to a mariachi band musically seduce young ladies
into situations where a next generation of meat-being is given a chance
to come into existence? Regardless of how good that uploaded existence
is, Imagine I miss that Berkeley mariachi feeling so much, I want to see
to it that the feelings I had yesterday are given a chance to be felt
again, into the future, indefinitely.</pre>
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Spike, what would prevent you, as an upload, having these
experiences?<br>
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If you realise you happen to never have any experiences you recall
having as a biological being, you can arrange to have them again, at
will, as an upload.<br>
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If some mariachi band and a suitable couple haven't also uploaded,
or have moved on from those behaviours, you could always recreate
the experiences you were missing in your own mind. I see no reason
anyone would not be able to have any experiences they wanted to, as
an upload. Just as we currently have AI systems that you can give a
description to, and they can create an image, still or moving, of
what you've asked for, I expect there will be systems that can take
a memory and turn it into an interactive experience for uploads.<br>
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I fully expect that uploads will be able to have any experience any
un-uploaded person can have, and then some.<br>
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Ben<br>
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