Mind uploading doesn't necessarily refer to creating uploads that live in virtual realities; it can refer to creating digital versions of minds that are embodied in robots that live in our physical reality...
However, it's a crude term, which is why Randal Koene advocates to talk about "substrate-independent minds" instead... -- Ben On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 11:51 PM, Steve Richfield via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Just so we are all on the same page here: > > *Uploading* is transferring something of someone into a central computing > system, so everyone can continue "living" in a virtual reality. > > *Downloading* is somehow "reading" the neural connectome and transferring > an equivalent functionality into an artificial body, to continue "living" > in the real world. > > I think everyone agrees that if possible, downloading would be preferable > to uploading, both because of the actual continuation of consciousness, and > because of its real-world manifestation. Unfortunately, many/most people > believe this to be hopelessly beyond presently known methods. > > However, given sufficient development, my coincident focus microscope > appears possibly able to read connectomes, see: > > http://CoincidentFocus.Weebly.com > > Note that the above web page is sloooow, so give it a minute - literally. > > This development would seem to render obsolete the concept of uploading, > except perhaps to those who are addicted to video games. Uploading appears > to be a workaround whose time has gone long before it has come. > > Right? > > If so, then how about some help getting downloading up and running? > > Steve Richfield > > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/212726-deec6279> | Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Ben Goertzel, PhD http://goertzel.org "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
