RE: Wet Uploading Organism

Chris Hind (chind@juno.com)
Fri, 27 Sep 1996 13:18:03 -0700


At 12:18 9/27/96 +0200, you wrote:
>On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Chris Hind wrote:
>
>> >>slowly grew into and took over your brain.
>> >Why is this a 'genetically engineered organism', and not a swarm of
nanobots?
>> Because we are closer to genetic engineering than we are nanotechnology so
>> we can be uploaded sooner.
>
>But biology is harder to control well. Drexlerian nanotech might be dry,
>rigid and overly limited in some respects, but it is predictable. Making
>an organism that can do the uploading process would involve not only the
>uploading problem, but how to make it coexist well with the human body.

True but I want to be uploaded asap. Also through MRI scans, etc we could
keep a close watch on progress and in case anything got out of hand, I dunno
what we'd do. Got any ideas?