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it doesn't matter if you would be flesh or silicon. It does matter. It is cheaper to send 100 lbs of computer+powersupply, than to send 10,000 lbs of human+lif
by gravitycop 18y ago
it doesn't matter if you would be flesh or silicon.
It does matter. It is cheaper to send 100 lbs of computer+powersupply, than to send 10,000 lbs of human+lifesupport.
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you wouldn't want to have your sensors far away from your effectors.
If you existed in silico, why would your sensors need to be far away from your effectors?
- bd 18y agoI meant - "you would want to experience" - as in you personally (you = one human being). Edit: Sorry, I corrected my older comment, it was supposed to say "sensors and effectors far away from brain". You cannot effectively "be present" [1] at the remote world if your perceive-think-act loop would be spread over large distance. So even if you would be in silico, you would still need to transfer your actual hardware, not just dumb robots. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28telepresence%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28telepresence%29
- gravitycop 18y agoWhat I meant by in silico was existence in computer hardware. Sending 100 lbs of computer+powersupply there means being there, without being spread telepresently over large distances.
- gravitycop 18y ago(you = one human being) If, as I originally posited, humans were to evolve into in silico entities, then human beings (= naked apes) would not exist, would they (other than, perhaps, as specimens on display in zoos)?