Re: what it's like to be uploaded

From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Wed Feb 23 2000 - 18:41:28 MST


><< What I'm fairly certain [uploaded life] *won't* be like is Captain
Future zooming
> through the asteroid belt in her souped-up space chariot, having
> stereotyped visceral thrills galore, or even teleporting to the stars for
> more of the same.

>why not? zooming should be easy wihtout the physics.... or are we going to
>mock physics?

Work with me here, QM. What I'm asserting - since trying to prove the
almost imponderable is a waste of time - is that quite quickly the
condition of the uploaded will be so very strange that such comic strip
fantasies will have as much plausibility as the speculations of two
bacteria discussing life as a kidney.

Damien



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