Moscow Subway Attack

[mike777]

I think a more realistic option would be to store all our souls on a computer, program it to simulate some fairy planet like Pandora from Avatar, equip it with nuclear fuel enough to power it for a billion years, and then ship it to deep space so that the Iranian missiles can't reach it.

 

But Mikeh told me that that's impossible so I guess we are stuck with the Earth.

did he happen to mention why it's impossible?

I think his case was the same as the one made by Jeff Hawkins: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Intelligence

Wow! When did I do that? I tried to read the wiki entry and gave up, so if my arguments are like hawkins', trust me, it's a coincidence.

 

I do find a logical flaw with the idea of uploading ourselves into computers, if we mean moving ourselves from a meat brain into an electronic one...by some form of copying. A more plausible means seems to me to be that eventually we may be able to have electronic (or man-made and replaceable biological) machines that we add to our brains...and that we gradually increase the effective power and capacity of these add-ons and whatever 'we' are becomes increasingly based in those extensions.....ultimately the original meat part becomes unnecessary...in other words, my issue is continuity of whatever the mind may be...I don't see the mind as being something that can be separated from the matrix from which it emerges...so to move it to another matrix requires that the new matrix be initially part of or intimately connected to the original.

 

Of course, I don't believe in a 'soul'. Let me know if and when there is reproducible evidence of one's existence B)

 

see Singularity thread in water cooler.

 

 

http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...&hl=singularity

 

 

See evolution threads.