Re: Uploaded thoughts. (p.1)

--- In wta-talk@y..., "John Leppik" <jleppik@k...> wrote:

> I agree with you on your views about identity preservation, but I
am yet to encounter a plausible hypothesis on how uploading could
possibly be achieved.

That would be a second part of my post. But again, my scenario is
purely hypothetical, since I can't offer any specific engineering
details as to what exactly needs to be done.

> I have outlined some of my first-blush concerns in my posts of
Saturday, October 19, 2002 9:44 PM and Saturday, October 19, 2002
10:19 PM.

I'm almost finished with my reply. Look for it tommorow. ("first-
blush concerns" - I like this term :))

> I have read the relevant parts of Kurzweil's work and I find them
to be more wishful thinking, rather naive actually, rather than
plausible outlines by someone who understands his technology. With
that comment, perhaps I will hear from him.
>

The only reason why I mentioned Kurzweil was that he provides well
known descriptions of the scenarios and conclusions that form the
basis for further discussion about identity preservation. I used
those scenarios for illustrative purposes only, and could easily do
without them. As you know, I disagree with Kurzweil on the gradual
uploading issue. But I also think he's right about many other things,
like a mind is a pattern independent of the substrate it runs on, for
example. I think we can all agree on that, right?

Slawek
Received on Mon Oct 21 20:34:03 2002