X-Message-Number: 8564 Date: Mon, 08 Sep 97 16:53:44 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Uploading Olaf Henny, #8559, writes >If we are uploaded, we will have no doubt ample >excess computing capacity left to strictly assess every move we >make in terms of probability of success. Our life will be as dry as >the - ahhmm - exhalation of an Egyptian mummy and as exciting as >watching laundry dry. How do you know this? What do we know now that would preclude life as an upload being *more* exciting, not less exciting than it is now, in a meat body? If emotions reduce to brain states, and the brain is emulated in a computer, could we not have the same subjective experiences in that form as here? Plus, a computer emulation, one would think, would be more amenable to enhancements of various sorts. This might involve "deeper," "more meaningful" experiences than are possible in our flesh-and-blood state. Certainly nobody has ruled it out. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=8564