Re: Wet Uploading Organism

Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:51:24 +1000

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At 02:12 AM 9/24/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I was considering this thought. The best way to be uploaded is to
>genetically engineer an organism that would grow into your brain and destroy
>a neuron and map the equivelant connections in a virtual world.

Something like this is deployed in Greg Egan's terrific sf story `Learning
to be me' (Interzone, July 1990, and his collection AXIOMATIC) and some
related stories.

Damien

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