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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
If that happens ... being able to upload our brain ... I want a BIG floppy, with lot's of RAM.
I don't know how realistic that is though. Cryonics and DNA mapping seem like a better ticket to immortality to me. I don't think I'd count on my immortality being entrusted to highly fallible electonic devices. Certainly the current state of computer reliability isn't very reassuring. They're making computers more and more powerful, but they seem to still be having problems with the nuts and bolts end of things.
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well they make computers cheaply right now because it would cost far more to produce programs and hardware that worked together without any bugs than it does to simply eliminate the most likely ones
for example the software for nasa space shuttles is virtually bug proof. but if we wanted comparable bug free software for our personal computer we'd have to pay 10x as much for windows and the hardware would also be much more expensive
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If we can ever get a grasp on what makes us "think" then we're well on our way to creating robots that can do everything we can. Except, as you pointed out, the technology has a long way to go to get to that point.
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yeah, the dalai lama's book "the universe in a single atom" talks about the search for what makes us conscious - sorta the same problem. (btw really interesting book about how science/religion can work together)