On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 07:40:23PM +0100, Mike Tintner wrote: > One of the interesting 2nd thoughts this provoked in me is the idea: what > would it be like if you could wake each day with a new body - a totally
What would it be like to wake up embodied as a circumstellar node cloud? Uh, it would nothing like you could possibly imagine, so you shouldn't waste your time on it. What would it be to wake up as a dust mite, or a god? It's nothing what you could imagine either. So what could we realistically imagine? Minor variations our our current theme. Would you like to spend a lot of quality time on it? I wouldn't. > different body? In principle a superAGI could perhaps adopt many changing > different physical forms - like the villain in Terminator 2 (although not > presumably using the same chemistry). If your scenarios start looking very much like a recent set of Hollywood block busters, it is probably full of lousy science, rampant anthropocentrism, are guaranteed not to happen in reality, and you could be making serious money peddling this to the gullible public instead of wasting your talent on the internets. ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=7d7fb4d8
