[ExI] Who wants to live forever? Maybe you can...

[Eugen Leitl]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 12:21:33AM -0700, Adrian Tymes wrote:

> > There are very good reasons to suspect that most activities will happen
> > in solid state (with, of course, plenty of physical layer construction and
> > maintenance)
> 
> 
> Indeed.  I was, in part, emphasizing that parenthetical.

This definitely could use some emphasis. Ignoring the
physical layer will tend to disagree with you more sooner
than later. Though a lot of that activity would be
about as conscious as you're conscious of your brain
stem activity right now -- but you immediately certainly 
would notice if it's no longer doing its job, the
same as you'd notice your metabolism crashing.

Everything is embodied, somewhere.