XPost: alt.philosophy, alt.atheism   
   From: ralph@eddlewood.demon.co.uk   
      
   In message <1142870998.559370.130930@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>,   
   Dianelos Georgoudis  writes   
      
   A nice post.   
   >   
   >I've read Kurzweil's "Age of the spiritual machines". In it he claims   
   >that really soon now it will be possible to upload a human   
   >consciousness into a computer and have it live practically for ever in   
   >this much more durable medium.   
      
   If Mr. Kurzwell's computer lives longer than I have, I'd love to know   
   where he bought it.   
      
   And the *contents* of our consciousness is a tiny fraction of the whole.   
   Without the connections, it loses most of its meaning. These links are   
   so complex they could never be artificially reproduced, since we have no   
   way to specify them.   
      
   --   
   ralph   
      
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