Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

"Joseph Nebus" <nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> I can think of a fair number of stories in which brain uploads
> to computers, interacting with the real world or with a detailed enough
> virtual world, is presented.  Sometimes this is a bit of a shock and
> the uploaded person has to go through something like grieving to adjust
> to this new digital lifestyle.
>
> Are there stories in which a mature virtual population, folks
> who have had the time to consider and reflect and get used to life this
> way, come to the decision that it's better (by whatever standard) to
> live as a complicated biochemical process within a physical body?  And
> do they act on it?

I want to say MacLeod's "The Stone Canal" but maybe it was one or more
other stories set in that same timeline.  One character who's spent too
much
time uploaded tries to return to being meat but his mind would no longer
fit
in a merely human brain.