[extropy-chat] when will computers improve?

[Adrian Tymes]

--- Kevin Freels <kevinfreels at hotmail.com> wrote:
> As far as uploading and Windows are concerned, how
> would an operating system
> for an upload work? Would "you" be the OS, would the
> OS run "you", or would
> we do away with the entire concept of an OS
> altogether?

Either architecture could be implemented, really, but
the better one would recognize that you are the OS.
It would be condescending, naive, and wind up with a
limited result to assume that only the operating
system the programmers provide can "actually" run the
hardware, and you are but a software agent being
granted some section of runtime at the whim of a
kernel that runs more important tasks - especially if
some entity not necessarily concerned primarily with
your well being (like, say, a manager of the
corporation which funded development of the upload
hardware) gets to decide what is "important".

Conversely, you yourself, as you are today, have input
and output devices, and perhaps run some processes
(like heartbeat) subconsciously (though responding to
changeable environmental variables, such as alert
level) and others (like breathing) sometimes
subconsciously and sometimes consciously, while others
(like cognitive thought) are always fully conscious.
In many ways, the mind of Human 1.0 is an operating
system, and a faithful upload emulation would take
this as a design principle.  In theory, any OS can be
emulated within another OS, but why waste the CPU
cycles running some other OS?