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Old 12-13-2009, 12:01 AM   #45
whswhs
 
Join Date: Jun 2005
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Default Re: Ghosts and Mind Copies - The Identity Question

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Originally Posted by jeff_wilson View Post
That sort of progressive brain peel ought to be doable in TS, but the repeated nanostasis would make it risky and (more) horrendously expensive. Maybe by 2105 or so....
The Singularity Is Near in fact describes that sort of process. And if it were actually a situation where the digital brain emulation was processing neural data in real time, and feeding them back to the next layer down in the neural columns, so that the brain and the emulation were functioning as an integrated system, I might buy it as a legitimate handoff that preserved numerical identity and migrated the same consciousness from organic to digital. The orthodox THS process isn't the same thing.

Bill Stoddard
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