X-Message-Number: 33463 From: Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:39:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: Henson reply Replying to Keith Henson's message below: My point was that an attempted emulation must fail because we don't know enough abut the laws of physics to construct a realistic algorithm. If you work backwards, using an alleged emulation to build a bio brain, the result would also be unrealistic. Bob ------------ X-Message-Number: 4 Foobar. You apparently are unable to view this message. Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:28:47 -0700 Subject: Re: Emulation? [Ettinger] From: Keith Henson <_ (mailto:) > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 3:00 AM, _ (mailto:) wrote: snip > This does not address the question of whether the attempted emulation would > be alive or conscious. It might conceivably be something useful, but it > wouldn't be an emulation. If you are the original, the"emulation" wouldn't be > you. Bob, perhaps I missed it, but I have not seen any reply from you on the concept of a completely reversible uploading process. I can't see any reason it should be more difficult to transfer one direction than the other. So you could upload and while in the uploaded state store experience in your inactive/cold biological brain. The uploaded brain could warm up the biological brain and seamlessly transfer function till it was all back in the biological brain. Comments? Keith Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=33463