--- Niels-Jeroen Vandamme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Without consciousness, there could be no perception. I am surely conscious
> right now, and how I am will remain a mystery for many years.
A thermostat perceives the temperature and acts on it. Is it conscious?
We think we know what consci
On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 12:52:18PM -0500, Papiewski, John wrote:
> What I meant was, the only method a sane, informed, non-suicidal person
> would want to sign up for of their own free will.
I like to think that most cryonicists are sane, informed, and non-suicidal
when they sign their contracts.
I wouldn't mind a process where subjectively I was "going to sleep"
then "woke up" as the upload, regardless of what transpires in
between. The subjective "I" wouldn't really notice. But, I *would*
prefer that the original me be "turned off" without waking him up.
Of course there are several phy
What I meant was, the only method a sane, informed, non-suicidal person
would want to sign up for of their own free will.
Of course there are several physical methods that might upload your
personality, indistinguishable from you, but would kill YOU. So there's
no benefit to you, though nobody el
