On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 06:20:51PM -0400, Colin Tate-Majcher wrote:
> 
>    When you talk about "uploading" are you referring to creating a copy
>    of your consciousness?  If that's the case then what do you do after

You die. The process is destructive.

>    uploading, continue on with a mediocre existence while your
>    cyber-duplicate shoots past you?  Sure, it would have all of those
>    wonderful abilities you mention, but you would not.  I'd much rather
>    find a way to transfer my consciousness completely to synthetic
>    substrate.  I hope I'm just misunderstanding things because that

Easy: just terminate one prong of fork before some 100 ms subjective
time passes. You won't feel nary a thing.

>    sounds horrible.

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