--- "Eric B. Ramsay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The more problematic issue is what happens if you non-destructively up-load > your mind? What do you do with the original which still considers itself > you? The up-load also considers itself you and may suggest a bullet.
Thus, the fallacy of immortality through uploading is exposed. A copy of you is not you. But why? A copy of a computation is as good as the original. Surely you don't believe that there is something going on the brain that cannot be explained by physics? This is what happens when logic conflicts with the hard-coded beliefs that were programmed by evolution. Such conflicts are inevitable. Human introspection on human intelligence is limited by the mathematical fact that a program cannot simulate itself. -- Matt Mahoney, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=231415&user_secret=fabd7936
