X-Message-Number: 32888
References: <>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:18:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: 2Arcturus <>
Subject: Uploading

--0-560457599-1285798721=:7816



Well, by embodiment, I meant to include virtual bodies, which are bodies after 
all.
We seem well on our way to living in virtual reality - people work all day 
looking into one computer screen, then go home and spend all evening looking 
into another, television or computer, screen, for fun.
But for reasons that are too complicated to go in to here, I hope humanity 

always keeps one foot in the 'real world.' At a minimum, for virtual embodiment,
that would mean the ability to sense and manipulate the external world.

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:34:32 -0700
From: Edgar Swank - President <>
Subject: Uploading

>>>Arcturus also wants to be reconstituted in a body of some kind and 
compares living inside a computer to locked-in syndrome. But living in a 
sufficiently rich virtual reality would not be like that at all. One 
could have any kind of virtual body one wanted, including any super 
powers one might imagine. I don't see any problem moving from the 
virtual reality to an advanced android or cyborg body. But I expect most 
people would choose the virtual reality, at least most of the time. 
Maybe there might be a requirement to spend some minimum time in the 
real world earning money to pay for upkeep on the computer hardware for 
the virtual reality. But one could still earn a living in the virtual 
reality, if it had a communication link to the outside, by doing various 
kinds of consulting, writing stories, etc.

-- 
Edgar W. Swank  <>
President - American Cryonics Society
http://AmericanCryonics.org




--0-560457599-1285798721=:7816

 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

[ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] 

Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32888