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Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:48:18 +0100 (CET)
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Subject: Re: CryoNet #32287 - #32288
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Even if uploading would not constitute survival, it's nevertheless a 
constructive consolation in case of death. Yet it's good when uploading works to
lower the great loss of personality-related information which most often 
happened after death. Therefore, uploading will be an important makeshift 
alternative for me to make a constructive consolidation come true. In such a 
case, it's not the purely fictional mind uploading, but the uploading of remains
in DNA and digital or computer-readable information from former individual 
humans who should become artificial creatures in cyberspace. Anyways, it's also 
important for some mentally ill or socially oppressed individuals who cannot 
afford to sign up for cryonic suspension of their brain.


For a broader description of the phrase "makeshift alternative": Mental illness 
among homeless individuals in a suburban county 
http://psychservices.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/abstract/48/4/504 by G 
Haugland, C Siegel, K Hopper and MJ Alexander. Epidemiology and Health Services 
Research Laboratory, Nathan S. Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. 1997, 
American Psychiatric Association.

robomoon

Robert Ettinger writes:

> In Youniverse I have discussed this at length, and  shown--conclusively 
> in my opinion--that uploading would not constitute survival  by any
> reasonable definition.

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