X-Message-Number: 15223 Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2000 12:42:58 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Persons, Computerizations, Timing Issue Thomas Donaldson, #15211, says: >As for Mike Perry, he seems to completely ignore the point that for us NOW, >the possibility that someday, through advances in software only, we can make a >version of ourselves that will work as fast as we do. That version, if done in >PRESENT time rates, will necessarily HAVE to be parallel. There's something funny about your first sentence (by the way, your message came in with other strange things that I corrected as best I could). But the general sense of this plus the next one seems to be that any technique for making a computerized version of our selves that "works as fast as we do" anytime soon will necessarily involve some parallelism. If that's what you mean, no argument! But I don't "completely ignore this point" (if that's also what you are trying to say). In fact, three times in my message of Nov. 27 I put in the disclaimer that there I was not considering the issue of a system running in realtime but only a more general case where we allow for the possibility of slower execution times. This does not mean I consider this issue unimportant, however! That said, I really don't think there is any important disagreement in our different points of view. Best to you and to all, Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=15223