[ExI] Bodies

[Giulio Prisco]

I agree with Ben and Lee. These anti-uploading rants sound like deep ecology
nonsense to me. Listen to me, there is nothing sublime in a senile brain
slowly dying in a rotting body. The sooner we can leave these things behind
us, the better.

Moreover, we used to agree on self-ownership and radical morphological
freedom. I hope we still do.

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Giulio Prisco
giulio at gmail.com
(39)3387219799

On Mar 17, 2010 2:36 PM, "Ben Zaiboc" <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:

I'm with Lee on this one, only moreso.

Why do people assume that this is an either-or thing? That after uploading,
you somehow lose the ability to interact with the world you 'left' (you
won't leave it at all, really, your brain will just be made of someting
different, and be much better at communication).

I think that's a good way of looking at it: migrating your consciousness
into a better brain.  I'm sure there's no reason why that better brain
couldn't be installed in an old-fashioned version 1 meat-body, just like the
one you have now (If you really wanted that, for some unfathomable reason).

You'd be able to inhabit a real-world body when desired, and do all the
stuff you presently do, and want to do, and more.  You'd be able to inhabit
a completely virtual body, and experience a wide variety (understatement) of
virtual environments.  You'd be able to combine the two, probably in ways we
haven't even thought of yet.

I think it's important to appreciate that by the time we have the technology
to emplement uploading, we'll be capable of building a much better version
of our current meat-bodies, made of 'super-meat', or nanobots, or utility
fog, or whatever.  We'll be capable of building (and living in) bodies that
are pretty much anything we like, and of switching between experiencing life
in such a body and a huge variety of virtual worlds at will.

I just don't understand the attitude that uploading somehow represents a
/narrowing/ of choice, instead of a vast broadening of it (and I certainly
don't understand the comment about granddad in a coma!).

Ben Zaiboc

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