sentience@pobox.com ("Eliezer S. Yudkowsky") writes:
>Joe Jenkins wrote:
>> And why can't the naturally evolved mind be
>> uploaded and evolved further using genetic algorithms - a starting
>> point for the GA?
>
>Uploading requires nanotechnology on such a high level that someone has long
>since reduced the Earth to a boiling puddle of goo.
Merkle has a fairly convincing sketch of how uploading could be achieved with virtually no technology beyond what we have today at: http://www.merkle.com/merkleDir/brainAnalysis.html The main ingredient that is missing is money.
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