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

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