> On Thursday, December 02, 1999 10:39 AM Robert J. Bradbury
> bradbury@www.aeiveos.com wrote:
> > > The lifespan issue is very important too. It might be considered
cruel
> to
> > > uplift a creature that can only live such a brief life. (This might
be
> > > subjective, but I think a life span of three years is too short.
Heck,
> I'm
> > > interested in immortality just like most of you.:)
> >
> > When I first read this, I thought this has to be wrong, but then I
> > realized it has to do with the technology involved. If you upload
> > or uplift
>
> Whoa! Uplift and upload are not interchangeable. To uplift is to take a
> nonsentient lifeform and make it sentient. To upload is to transfer a
> biobrain to nonbiological substrate. Someone already defined this
> elsewhere, but I think it needs pointing out since the terms are almost
> spelled the same.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Daniel Ust
> http://mars.superlink.net/neptune/
>
>