When the singularity occurs and you get uploaded, what happens to your meatspace body? Is the upload a “move” or a “copy”? If it’s a copy how could you stand waiting around to die in a few decades, knowing that there’s an immortal you somewhere out there?
also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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Don’t worry, Frodo dies.
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I think your original concept is what most extropians used to believe. Here is the big question: Faced with that kind of...
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I really hadn’t thought of it working ship of Theseus-style, wasn’t really on point I guess). My impression of the...
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I could be wrong here, but I think...the meatspace body will shed its layers one by one....
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