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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:38:06 EST
Subject: Re: Thomas on uploading

From: Thomas Donaldson <>

> The whole idea of uploading ourselves (not modifying ourselves, but
> UPLOADING ourselves) stems from an older idea about how our brains
> worked. This idea claimed that after infancy, our brains basically
> became static machines, with any learning or other changes caused
> by changes similar to those in the circuits that make up a computer.

Thomas,

You assume here uploading on the most primitive neural network. It is as 
saying that a rocket can't go to the Moon because the cardboard from the body 
could not withstand the load of a supersonic flight.

Neuron simulation for uploading will take care of every biochemical 

peculiarity and the full system will have not a fixed number of neurons or links

between them. The most promisig system are not computers, they are FPGA. With 
these, 
links and neuron number or properties can shift thousands time a second.

Yvan Bozzonetti.


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