> a mere matter of slow migration, with the mind
> concious throughout, and incorporating the new
> electronic capacity as its own throughout the
> process.
Yeah, that's the method I, also, feel is most
promising. With scanning, in its various
implementations, you have the problem of potential
loss of important information, as well as that pesky
problem of whether your consciousness will also
transfer when your scan comes on-line, and if not,
then where is your consciousness going to end up, in
the original body, or your uploaded data? And with
nanoreplacement, there's also the potential
information loss, and the view I recall being brought
up previously, of what if as the
nano-whatever-you-want-to-call-thems gradually replace
the neurons with nano-things, you lose the functions
of those neurons, gradually losing consciousness, is
what I think (I could very well be totally mixed up
here) was said?
Onward,
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