[ExI] how large is a human mind?

[Rafal Smigrodzki]

On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Alan Grimes <agrimes at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>>
>> My vague feeling is that the lower part of the range is more plausible
>> but I am giving this very large range of numbers to express my lack of
>> confidence in the estimates. Still, it should be rather cheap to pay
>> for individual storage which means the competition for survival in the
>> M-brain substrate could be about paying for single gigabytes of
>> storage space.
>
>
> Why would any slightly sane person permit such a regime to arise?
>
### Are there many sane people around?

I find Robin's arguments about the coming poverty of the uploads quite
convincing although I tend also to think this will be very transient
since the uploads will be outcompeted and perhaps even erased by
superorganisms (entities consisting of large numbers of minds
integrated much closer than ants in a colony). Which is why it's good
to know how lean you can get.

Rafal