Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

jgamble@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (John M. Gamble) writes:

>In article <nebusj.1210093101@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>Joseph Nebus <nebusj-@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>	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?  

>You've got a lot of limitations there.  How about just stories
>of machine-based intelligences (whether they first started there
>or not) that go biological?

	Just to be on the record -- since I'm enjoying how the thread 
is turning out and picking up neat stories that maybe I actually will 
get the chance to read -- my only real intent with the limitations was 
to avoid stories where someone is ripped away from her body and tries 
mightily to get back to it, with the question of whether real or 
virtual existence is preferable left as an unexamined assumption.  

	Although, come to think of it, I can only think of one novel 
that nearly fits that, and that's not a real match -- Justin Leiber's 
_Beyond Rejection_.  (Brain-dumped into a new body, Protagonist goes 
in search of her original body, which she's sentimentally attached to 
what with it having been male and all his for his life up to that 
point and not having a tail.)  

	Anyway, I'm generally in favor of treating subject lines or 
the original-post parameters as a starting point, and letting the 
actual subject expand to fit.  So, you know, expand-the-focus away.  

-- 
								Joseph Nebus
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