<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Sat, Oct 4, 2025 at 7:00 PM Mike Dougherty <<a href="mailto:msd001@gmail.com">msd001@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><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><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Oct 4, 2025, 8:55 AM John Clark 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="ltr"><div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>Has anybody around here seen the animated Netflix series "Pantheon"? The animation is not Pixar quality but it's not bad and I've never seen a better depiction of uploading in any movie or TV series. </b></font></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><font size="4" face="georgia, serif"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>I tried. It bored me. It started ok, but apart at the point were uploaded dad plays World of Warcraft with cyber-emo daughter.</i></font></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><font size="4" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b>That's one of the things I liked the best because I think at first most things that an upload does might be considered a sort of video game. To maintain emotional stability generating a virtual world for your virtual body to live in would be necessary, being completely disembodied would be very disconcerting and probably insanity producing, at least at first until you become a custom to being an upload. After that things could safely become more abstract. </b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="4"><b>It's o<span class="gmail_default" style="">dd, it's been over 20 years since I played a video game, maybe I should take it up again. </span></b></font></div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""><br></b></font></span></div><div><span class="gmail_default" style=""><font size="4" style="" face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b style=""> John K Clark</b></font></span></div><div> <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="auto"></div></div>
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