[extropy-chat] Cryonics and uploading

[Bret Kulakovich]

On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:47 AM, John K Clark wrote:

> Now I'm sure you won't use the word "soul" to describe it, not on the
> Extropian list you won't, you'll dream up some euphemism for it,  
> but I know
> what you're talking about. And shit by any other name would stink  
> as bad.


No John, it is much, much worse.

And maybe even worse than that on Extropians:

1. I Don't Know.

Am I an electro/chemical event, my body a generator, and my  
perception only a spark? Am I simply a rider, and my body a horse?  
One day, will I toggle a switch, back and forth, and have the  
subjective point of view of my sense-data hop between my physical  
body and a server rack? Will I one day die, and wake up with angels  
an ancestors? I do not know.


2. You Don't Know, Either.

And that is perhaps the worse part, from your point of view. But it  
shouldnt be, since you'll just make copies of yourself.



Right? ; )


Bret K.
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