[ExI] The Upload Game

[Stefano Vaj]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Michael Miller <ain_ani at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 1. What criteria would be necessary to make uploading a "proven technology"?
> What experiments would have to be conducted in order to sufficiently
> convince you that the upload was in fact a direct continuation, rather than
> just a feeble simulation?

When your neighbours and relatives have been teleported from point X
to point Y a number of times through destructive scanning, and/or
emulated for a while on some other support than their old bodies,
without your being able to note à la Turing any practical difference,
*and* a few people start considering you a lunatic for your
metaphysical doubts on whether such procedures actually imply a death
and the re-birth of a different individual, *and* you start being
tired of your physical decay or of standing in a line in an airport,
THEN you are likely to be sufficiently soon convinced that such
procedures are in fact a direct continuation of your personality and
self.

Stefano Vaj