X-Message-Number: 32289 Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 11:43:08 +0100 Subject: Re: uploading and survival From: yvan Bozzonetti <> --001636458de8ceac4f047c7c9ea2 From: > Freeposity writes in part: > >I have yet to see a valid argument against > >uploading. > > In Youniverse I have discussed this at length, and shown--conclusively > in my opinion--that uploading would not constitute survival by any > reasonable definition. > > Robert Ettinger > On a philosophical basis, this may be true. Yet in practice, things may be more involved. For me, it seems that uploading is simpler to implement that biological survival. A simple argument is that biological repair would need a molecular scale map to see what must be corrected. That same map would be the essential element in a upload project. For biological repair it is only a first step. So, uploading must come first as a byproduct of biological repair. A uploaded copy may be the best "person" or simulation motivated to conduct the biorepair work. Yvan Bozzonetti --001636458de8ceac4f047c7c9ea2 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32289