> Well the people i have seen die of old age, havn't seem to be that worried
> about it. They felt they had experienced everything. Their life was a bore,
> and their friends had died. I guess if i'm uploaded and my brain is running
> a million times faster, and im so smart that problems that now seems
> difficult will be trivial, that there might someday come a time when i feel
> that there won't be more to experience. (I'm certainly not shure, but it
> could happen.)
>
> Then, just to get the final kick, i would somehow make my uploaded mind a
> part of the universe.
Recently I was cleaning my hard drive at home from old junk when I
found an archive of my father's files. He died three years ago (he
definitely fell in the category of people who are content with dying,
being a victim of multiple sclerosis), and I had archived his files
shortly afterwards. In some sense they remain a record of his mind
and interests, very incomplete but still clearly his. I didn't erase
the archive, and put it back in my own long-term archive.
Maybe this is an interesting alternative to death as total
information-loss, death as merely the end of active change. As we
die, we allow ourselves and out exoselves to be archived (as a whole
or partially) for future study, reference or use. In some sense the
dead are already in this state, archeologists and paleontologists are
definitely getting information from them.
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