PM, On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote:
> Two questions for Steve. > > 1. How do you know I'm Christian? > You are here, so I presume that you are NOT a Christian. > You have no evidence of that. > EVERYONE (there are NO escapees) absorbs some of the Christian dogma as part of growing up in a Christian society. Your attachment to your (unstated) soul reflects that. > > 2. Replace the brain cells where? Replace them in my meat-based body, > or replace them online. If you are duplicating my cells and putting them > back into my meat body, then what does that achieve? > This is a thought-experiment leading to an interesting conclusion. > If you are duplicating > the cells and removing them from my body and putting them in a machine, > then eventually you will destroy the meat body > Yes. > and destroy the person. > Spoken like true Christian, or at least a Christianized atheist. > There will be a tipping point where the person is lobotomized and no longer > functioning. > Oops - NOT my thought experiment. Note in passing however that if you have ever been under general anesthesia, then you have already been there. > Then you'll have neither the person nor a full recreation of that > person. > You have obviously missed something somewhere. Hold your cross and repeat "I Believe, I Believe, I Believe" and maybe it will come to you. Steve ==================== > > > Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 11:44:48 -0500 > > From: [email protected] > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [agi] How to create an uploader. > > > > Steve Richfield via AGI wrote: > > > Proof:? > > > > > > If you were to replace just one brain cell with a precise functional > > > duplicate, albeit made with a different technology, it would do all of > > > the same things and you would still be you. Right? > > > > > > I look forward to feedback. > > > > =| > > > > U are a patronizing asshole, I hope you know that.... > > > > Why can't you simply respect the fact that I have found something a > > thousand million times better than uploading could possibly be and see > > any further contemplation of uploading a much worse waste of time than > > playing Kerbal Space Program all day and all night like I have been > > doing.... =( > > > > I refuse to be limited to what you can imagine. =| > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------- > > 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 > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/10443978-6f4c28ac> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > -- Full employment can be had with the stoke of a pen. Simply institute a six hour workday. That will easily create enough new jobs to bring back full employment. ------------------------------------------- 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
