scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> > And to think there are people who want this technology to exist.  No thank-you,
> > I'll keep my frail body and my date with mortality.
>
> Forget about the robot hardware, just get a copy of your brain up and
> running in software. Imagine how efficiently you could use a computer
> then, none of this controlling muscles in an elaborate way to type an
> "A" or move a pointer on the screen. You could just turn on "thought
> input" and as you think lines of text, pictures or sounds it gets
> written to a file :-) Just don't forget to keep daily backups of
> yourself in case you screw something up.
>
> And have a big project that needs to be done quickly? Just create 10
> copies of your brain to run in parallel. But make sure the copies are
> running in some kind of sand-box environment, otherwise you might have a
> problem...

Leaving aside, for the moment, the question of whether the copy of you is you
-which I personally do not believe- there's the question of what disconnecting
someone physically from everything that makes them human would do to their mind.

Thank-you, no.

Regards,
A.D.B.

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