X-Message-Number: 25239 Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2004 15:59:00 -0800 From: Mathew Sullivan <> Subject: Re: More on the copying and splitting of brains First, I should note that my opinions expressed here are mine alone and I do not speak on behalf of Alcor. Considering what will be required to repair "current" patients, my belief is that the patient's brain will be repaired and initially hooked up to a virtual reality program. Once the patient has been apprised of the events that have occurred since their deanimation, they will be provided options to complete the repair process. I believe we will have the option to have both a physical body and a virtual one at the same time. I see no need to limit our selves to the choice of a physical body or a virtual one when we can have both at the same time. When I went to the theater to watch Virtuosity with Danzel Washington, I was inspired by the concept of uploading into a liquid glass body and took it one step further, replacing liquid glass with liquid diamond. I've also imagined long-term survival can be achieved by means of duplication while spread over something of a wireless network. Think of the Borg from Star Trek, but with your personality and friendly. No need to assimilate or destroy cultures when we can trade knowledge and experience. Rather than mindless drones, they would be perfect copies of you. Even though you would be composed of liquid diamond, you could look and feel just as fleshy as you do now. The only deviation would be a time delay in communication between copies. As individual experiences propagated throughout the collective, feeding the network mind with knowledge, the collective mind would evolve as a whole, and then the collective perspective would feed back to the copy. Think of each copy of yourself as similar to an individual cell within a brain, but each copy would also represent the whole mind. Mathew Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25239