The trick and tragedy of uploading is that it is necessary and sufficient to build a machine that thinks that it is you.
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Replying to @Plinz @mylesbyrne
so basically the same what we are right now
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Replying to @3rdguess @mylesbyrne
The problem with uploading your mind is that after you are done there will be two people left to complain
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Replying to @mylesbyrne @3rdguess
Solaris deconstructs the illusion of mental essence, the despair of love, the quest of culture and epistemology of general minds
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Yes. Much more than replicants and uploads, Solaris is where we're heading, and where we've always been .. the 'real' Tlön.
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Replying to @mylesbyrne @3rdguess
Solaris is humanist, it describes the struggle of people with souls against the universe. Souls will die out, I think.
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While i agree w. you on Solaris, i think people will 'scale up', and the universe become completely ensouled.
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Replying to @mylesbyrne @3rdguess
Shared existential debt is at the core of love, and the romantic quest for meaning and understanding that Kelvin exemplifies.
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Excellent thoughts, worthy of Lem. But! Existential debt is not illusory, but arises from the fundamental unpredictability of next states.
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I don't think that Lem understood this, because he was still mostly concerned with the futility of humanity's quest, and nonhuman meaning.
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