From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Tue Jan 20 2004 - 16:17:49 MST
Some sober thoughts concerning nanotechnology:
http://smalley.rice.edu/rick%27s%20publications/SA285-76.pdf
Keith Henson wrote:
> Full blown nanotechnology makes even more complex ethical issues
> certain to emerge. Besides downloaded minds, we could have duplicate
> copies of people, artificial personalities (APs), if different from
> intelligences, special-purpose computer personalities created for some
> project, partly or completely independent fragments of minds, and computers
> which identify themselves with buildings or machines. This is only a small
> part of the list of entities we could be interacting with in the future.
> Some cases are small increments compared to the situation under discussion
> here, and the ethical considerations are relatively obvious; but others
> require bigger jumps to analyze.
>
>
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