In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.950217144858.608A-100000 at corona>,
Patrick O'Neil <patrick at corona> wrote:
>>>On Fri, 17 Feb 1995, Eugen Leitl wrote:
>>> There can't be any crash since the hardware is very special and has only
>> a "Virtual Machine"/Soft Circuit layer: no software, it's all
>> architecture, running a special data structure (me).
>>No, it would NOT be you. It would be a machine programed to simulate
>you. You would be dead and a poor "copy" of you would be used to animate
>a machine. You are nontransferable. You cannot be conscious in your
>body one moment, imprint a copy of your personality, etc, on an inanimate
>matrix, and then, viola, be conscious as YOURSELF in a machine. You ARE
>inseperable from your biochemistry and evolution. You are NOT a movable
>entity or program that only coincidently presently occupies your
>biological body...you ARE your body.
>
Okay, if your posts are an honest statement of what you believe,
then act, for yourself only, on those beliefs. But don't forbid
me to act in a way I feel proper.
If you think you know the future will be limited just as you
indicate, fine, don't do anything to extend your life. I
appreciate all voluntary reductions of population growth.
--
rha