>From: "john grigg" <starman125@hotmail.com>
>
>I wrote:
>>I want an uploading process that actually takes my brain
>>and transforms it into a form of energy without any loss to the >authentic
>>me.
>
>James wrote:
>I could be wrong but I don't think pure energy alone can retain complex
>information. To me one chunk of pure energy is the same as any other.
>(end)
>
>As I wrote the original post I wondered about that myself. Does anyone
>have
>an answer(at least conjecture) on that? Despite all we presently know, the
>technology I desire may be possible eventually but simply totally beyond
>what we can solidly hypothesize about at present.
Sorry, I missed your original post. Is it *pure* energy that you desire to
transform your mind to? I'm no physicist, but it does strike me that it
would be pretty hard to maintain the coherence of your mental patterns in
the form of pure energy. What little I know of quantum mechanics and the
laws of thermodynamics leads me to believe that you'd be in an uphill battle
against the encroachment of entropy.
But if you don't mind a non-obtrusive physical storage medium, I think
you'll be in luck.
-Zero
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