From: Dr Sebby (drsebby@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Apr 14 2004 - 16:48:16 MDT
...this is an interesting essay on nanotech reality, Walter. is there
anyone that can make a reasonable claim to the contrary?(supporting the
plausability of a self-replicating nanobot?)
DrSebby.
"Courage...and shuffle the cards".
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From: Walter Watts <wlwatts@cox.net>
Reply-To: virus@lucifer.com
To: virus@lucifer.com
Subject: Re: virus: Old stuff for fun
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:17:49 -0600
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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