Caprica. ~PM > Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:09:39 -0500 > Subject: Re: [agi] [offtopic] The GOERTZEL's latest publication. > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > But I would submit that copy of you is not you. A clone of you is not you, > > it is a clone. > > It doesn't have the same identity. Neither does a program that simulates > > your mind. > > (In my humble opinion, of course.) > > It is normal to feel that way. An exact copy of you would also claim > to be you. Most uploading proposals avoid this issue by killing the > original. For example, Hayworth proposes slicing up your brain, > scanning it at 5 nm resolution to reconstruct the connectome, and > using this information to program a robot. But he estimates this > technology is about 100 years away. > http://brainpreservation.org/content/killed-bad-philosophy > > I believe that non-destructive uploading is closer, because it is > easier to collect the needed information just by watching and > interacting with a person for a year or so. This raises the copying > issue, of course. Nobody is going to believe that the copy is them. > The solution is to wait for the biological body to die, and then it is > no longer an issue. Even if you believe that souls exist, so will your > copy. If the upload is done right, nobody will see any difference. > > It still requires solving hard problems in AI and robotics, but we are > getting there. > > -- > -- Matt Mahoney, [email protected] > > > ------------------------------------------- > AGI > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/19999924-4a978ccc > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
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