In a message dated 3/27/2001 7:12:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
bradbury@aeiveos.com writes:
<< The consequences of this are interesting -- it means you can never
*assemble* a collection of atoms in a form that constitutes a
lookup-table for a consciousness and then disassemble them
without having committed 'murder'.
Robert
Are your atoms, morally, not even yours?
Robert >>
Moravec, assumes in Robot, that eventually, a general background singularity,
will absorb everything; or at least everything interesting, from alien
biomes, to Ex-humans in spaceships, to fascinating astrophysical phenomena,
to an Earth and its inhabitants, guarded by superintelligent defense systems,
they too, will be gathered in.
They will instantly, be re-created as part of a cyber realm, with all
details, including thoughts intact. The atoms that once comprised them, would
be utilized in ways that permit a larger, future, for these absorbed beings
and biomes. Sounds like a sales pitch from the Borg, doesn't it? But, this in
essence, is what Moravec sees when he looks down the road of computation and
robotics. "All yours atoms is mine!"
Mitch
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