[ExI] simulation as an improvement over reality

[Ben Zaiboc]

"spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc

>>...I'm about to go out, meet some friends and kill a few neurons with
alcohol...

> You have plenty to spare Ben.  Have fun, drive carefully or get a designated
driver.  {8-]

Well, I'm told that I had fun.  Not so sure about the rest, although I do have a vague impression of the inside of a taxi.



>>... In the morning I'll be waking up in a different bed...

> Oh?  Whose?


That, sir, is irrelevant to the thrust of my argument.



>>... will be in a different mood...

> Depending of course on whose bed you are in when you awake...

No, it was more a function of amount and type of ethanol + congeners.


>> wearing different clothes...

> Whose?  And what is that person wearing?  I can imagine your mood will
depend on the answer to these questions. 

Almost certainly mine.  I think.


>>... have some different memories, even...

> Ja, that whole party sounds like one which could produce "different
memories."  The stories from your friends may differ widely from yours
later.  Of course they may perform drunken antics as well.

Indeed.  My camera seems to have different memories to my brain.  I remember having several quiet and witty conversations with a group of convivial socialites, followed by an elegant tea-dance.  I have no idea who the tinsel-covered stamping hooting gorillas in the pictures are.


>>... I'll still think of myself as the same person as last night, and be
happy about it...

> We will be more than happy, we will be overcome with mirth.

Well, I have to admit defeat on that one.  I'm a changed man since that night.  My liver is still recovering, anyway.


>>...  I expect that uploading, once it's perfected, won't be that much
different...Ben Zaiboc

> Ben let's hope they get the fun subroutines working right.  {8^]

OhMan to that!


> Happy New Year extropians! 

Happy New Year everyone!, even the miserable grumpy ones.


Ben Zaiboc