> On 29 Mar 2018, at 19:05, [email protected] wrote: > > > > On Thursday, March 29, 2018 at 12:16:58 PM UTC-4, John Clark wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 6:58 PM, <[email protected] <javascript:>> wrote: > > >> And a brain in a glass box would't be isolated either, it would be > connected to the internet and a virtual body or a robot body or anything > else it wanted to be connected to. And the connections would be far more > information intensive than the meager connections brains now have. > > > > "It" wanted? But without a body "it" wouldn't exist. Before this model > passes the smell test, you need a model that explains how "it" comes into > being, and where; that is, how it is localized. AG > > As I said before all objections to uploading fall into 2 general > categories: > > 1) Although it violates no laws of physics it would be vert hard to engineer > now and therefore it will always be very hard to engineer. > > 2) It does not conform to some variation of the very silly Sacred Atoms > Theory. > > Your objection falls into the second category. > > John K Clark > > You don't like the atomic theory of matter, for which there is abundant > empirical evidence,
There is evidence for physical atoms, but there is no evidence that physics describe the fundamental theory. That is just a metaphysical assumption which has been recently debunked. It simply does not work, unless you evacuate consciousness and first person from the picture. Bruno > fairly recently revised by quantum theory? What would you replace it with; a > theory of information in the absence of atoms, molecules, etc.? What would > the founders of information theory think about your presumed proposal? AG > > > > > > > -- > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list > <https://groups.google.com/group/everything-list>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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.
