On 9/16/2015 10:39 AM, John Clark wrote:
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 , spudboy100 via Everything List
<everything-list@googlegroups.com
<mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com>>wrote:
>
It seems, at this point, that the time for uploading is far, far,
away. It could emerge out of neuroscience research, and all that,
but it doesn't feel like there is anything reliable at this point.
Yes but exponential processes can do funny things, a week before
uploading becomes possible it will still seem to be a very long way
away, and the era where it's possible but very difficult and expensive
will only last for about 15 minutes. And if Cryonics works (a big if
I admit) then it doesn't matter if it happens a week after your death
or a thousand years after, all the time you spent bathing in liquid
nitrogen will seem instantaneous to you.
"Uploading" isn't some well defined process (except in SciFi). You
could be "uploaded" today by having a team of people research your
appearance, personality, thinking, preferences, speech, etc. and
incorporating them into a computer program with sensory inputs and some
Watson like AI. It would produce a Max Headroom like John Clark who
would continue to berate Bruno for his use of pronouns and other signs
of intelligence. Would it be conscious?...who knows. Would it be
recognizably John Clark...sure.
Brent
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
"Everything List" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email
to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com.
To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com.
Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
