<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">Agreed. But a real experience of an illusion is not itself an illusion of an experience. agreed billw</span><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 4:42 PM Adrian Tymes 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"><div dir="auto"><div>Agreed. But a real experience of an illusion is not itself an illusion of an experience.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 13, 2024, 10:45 AM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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"><div dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"></div><div dir="ltr">It’s a real experience of an illusion but it’s not a real experience of that which the illusion represents.</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Feb 13, 2024, at 08:17, Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">If one experiences an illusion, is not one's experience itself real even if the thing that was experienced was an illusion?</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 8:07 AM Tara Maya via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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">No one can have an experience at Will if the circumstances of that experience aren’t real; they can only have the illusion of an experience.<br>
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You could recreate a memory or a fantasy of hearing a mariachi band but unless the band of other people were there, you’d not be experiencing the band itself only the simulacra of the band.<br>
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A painting is not the thing it portrays.<br>
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> On Feb 13, 2024, at 02:17, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On 13/02/2024 00:37, spike wrote:<br>
>> For instance… what if… I upload, and realize I never have experiences <br>
>> like one I remember with crystal vision, the way I felt in Feb 2024 at <br>
>> Berkeley, listening to a mariachi band musically seduce young ladies <br>
>> into situations where a next generation of meat-being is given a chance <br>
>> to come into existence? Regardless of how good that uploaded existence <br>
>> is, Imagine I miss that Berkeley mariachi feeling so much, I want to see<br>
>> to it that the feelings I had yesterday are given a chance to be felt <br>
>> again, into the future, indefinitely.<br>
> <br>
> Spike, what would prevent you, as an upload, having these experiences?<br>
> <br>
> 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>
> <br>
> 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>
> <br>
> I fully expect that uploads will be able to have any experience any un-uploaded person can have, and then some.<br>
> <br>
> Ben<br>
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