Re: Star Trek transporting and uploading....

From: Emlyn (pentacle@enternet.com.au)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 03:46:47 MST


> Replicant wrote:
> Most people (including myself) are inherently uncomfortable with having
> themselves dismantled and a replicant assembled elsewhere. They really
want
> *themselves* to be move at light speed from one location to another. Until
> each of us wrestles with the meme of "what" *we* really are its going to
be
> hard to be satisfied with transport rather than actual transport.
> (end)
>

John Grigg wrote:
> I totally agree. For the same reasons I do not want to be uploaded. I
> would only wind up with a perfect copy of me and so the process had better
> not kill me! lol I want an uploading process that actually takes my brain
> and transforms it into a form of energy without any loss to the authentic
> me.

What I'd like to do is non-destructively copy myself a lot of times (upload,
but "I" am still little old me), onto really mega hardware, then ask all the
new me's to work out how to get "me" in there too, with the other "me's"
running at super dooper really fast speed, giving them access to methods of
upgrading their hardware, etc.

I think this would probably work because
a) I'm smart; lots of sooped-up versions of me could crack this before
(virtual) lunchtime, and
b) I'm a really nice guy, so I'd want to help myself out, even if it wasn't
really myself, you know the drill.

Emlyn
Ego Inside



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