Re: Uploading and Nanotech

Holger Wagner (Holger.Wagner@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Sat, 18 Apr 1998 13:35:50 +0200

Tony B. Csoka wrote:
>
> A rather simple question occured to me:
>
> "Which technology will appear first: Nanotechnology, or Uploading?"
>
> Whichever comes first would obviously have major implications for the
> way we evolve into Posthuman form.
>
> Opinions anyone?

I'm quite sure that Nanotech will be first. Uploading seems like an
extremely complicated thing to do, and I would even say that from
today's point of view, it cannot be proven that it is possible at all
(if anybody has proven it - I'd love to read about it to improve my
argumentation against dualists and the like)...

later,
Holger

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