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Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 10:48:04 EST
Subject: uploading again

Both Thomas Donaldson and Yvan Bozzonetti keep ignoring what appear to me  to 
be the main points.
 
Thomas keeps repeating that wetware is complicated and dynamic, hence very  

hard to model electronically. That doesn't matter. In principle, any condition
or process can be modeled to any desired degree of accuracy, even with a 
Turing  tape.
 
Yvan assumes that if you can model, you can upload--in the sense of having  
the "same" person in an electronic instantiation. But a model is only a  
description, and a description is not necessarily "equivalent" to the thing  
described. A description of a feeling is not a feeling. 
 
Robert Ettinger


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