X-Message-Number: 3972 From: (Robin Hanson) Date: Wed, 8 Mar 95 12:35:38 PST Subject: Uploads Thomas Donaldson writes: For Robin: we've already started using such "pieces of brains". When an expert trains a neural net to (for instance) search for good shares to buy, that's exactly what's happening. It's not necessary to devise these neural nets so that they like the same foods, want to rest in front of a window watching the ocean, etc etc. I very much doubt that we will have to move over any part of our experts except the highly specialized ones --- which will not strike for higher pay or cause any trouble at all. It may not be ultimately necessary, but I think the first feasible option will likely be to transfer a brain whole hog - this approach only requires understanding of very small scale brain organization, while other approaches require understanding of larger scale organization. I have laid out my views on such issues in: "IF UPLOADS COME FIRST, The crack of a future dawn", Extropy 6:2, 1994. Robin Hanson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=3972