X-Message-Number: 3892
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: Re: uploading
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 04:26:27 -0800 (PST)


More to Mr. Clark:

It's not that there is any competition between cryonics and uploading. I was
asking you a direct question, which as yet you have not answered ... although
what you say makes me wonder more about your answer.

Which of us is the superstitious one may be something we will find out with

time. As I hope I have made clear, I'm happy to modify myself (and incidentally,
you're reading too much into my statement that "we must think over.." the
changes we want. I wasn't claiming that it had to be collective at all!!!!).

Without any idea of how to do an uploading in any practical sense, and with no
clear idea of how critical features of our brains work, you seem believe that
"uploading" will solve our problems. In terms of uploading a human being,
you haven't the vaguest idea what that might mean, yet you still think it will
be an improvement. You don't even know what kind of computer to upload yourself
into.

If this is a philosophy it reminds me far too much of a little boy who sees
his first locomotive and decides he wants to be a choo-choo train.

			Long long life (in whatever form you wish ... after
			   consideration, of course)

				Thomas Donaldson


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