Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

On May 6, 1:01=A0pm, nebu...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Joseph Nebus) wrote:
> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 I can think of a fair number of stories in which brain
upl=
oads
> to computers, interacting with the real world or with a detailed enough
> virtual world, is presented. =A0Sometimes 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. =A0
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> =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Are there stories in which a mature virtual population,
fo=
lks
> 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? =A0And
> do they act on it? =A0
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=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Joseph Nebus
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"I, Rowboat", by Cory Doctorow has this concept, as does "Schild's
Ladder"
by Greg Egan. In both, whether to be meat or bits is simply a choice,
one
that is both individual and reversible: sometimes they do one,
sometimes
the other.

pt