I am more interested in the graph theoretic issues with NP-completeness for other reasons than I am in this question of uploading minds into computers. The latter I think is largely science fiction. I am more interested in questions of quantum information and the compatibility of quantum mechanics and general relativity.
My reasoning for not doing this is not about being "deader," but in terms of money. To be honest this borders on sounding like a scam, and I can imagine that con-men have concocted this scheme to part people from their money. Sure it might be based on a bit of science and technology, but I could easily see this as being some sort of scam. The cryonics movement has produced nothing, but people continue to pay into it. LC On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 11:16:03 AM UTC-6, John Clark wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Lawrence Crowell < > [email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > *> This further might connect with the whole idea of up-loading minds into >> computers. Brains and their states are not just localized states but >> networks, and it could well be that this is not tractable.* > > > If the brain is a network it is a network with a finite number of vertices > and a finite number of lines connecting those vertices. For uploading > you’re not trying to optimize or do anything with the network except to > just list all the lines and vertices in a network that already exists. You > don’t need to find some exotic new algorithm that can solve NP complete > problems in polynomial time to do that, you just need a few trillion > nano-machines that can feel around inside a brain and report back on what > they’ve discovered. And as I said before, even if a general class of > problems has been proven to be difficult that just means some specific > examples of it are, it doesn’t mean all or even most are and in fact some > could be quite easy. In general factoring large numbers is hard and 2^1000 > is huge but it would be remarkably easy to factor. > > There is another thing that confuses me, you seem to be implying nobody > should engage in Cryonics unless it has been proven with mathematical > certainty to work, and that doesn’t seem wise to me unless you know of a > reason that being frozen will make > me > deader than being eaten by worms. > > *> As a general rule once these threads gets past 100 I tend not to post >> any more. It becomes to annoying to find my way around them.* > > > I can sympathize, I’ve been complaining about that for years, but the > problem really isn’t 100 posts its that most people refuse to trim anything > when they respond so you end up with a vast iterated sea of quotes of quote > of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes and its very > hard to tell who said what. Its frustrating to scroll down through page > after page of quotes only to be rewarded at the end with one cryptic new > line like “that’s not true”. > > John K Clark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
