Re: Maybe thinking meat is a good idea

tkmailers@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> Steven L. wrote:
>> Joseph Nebus wrote:
>>>     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?
>>
>> There's always Poul Anderson's classic story "Call Me Joe."  In 
>> that
>> story, a disabled human controlling a Jovian by remote control
>> (virtual reality) prefers to live the rest of his life as the 
>> Jovian
>> rather than remain a disabled human.
>
> Good story, but it's not about software going meatware; it's more
> about a crippled body doing a mind dump to a healthy body - even if
> that healthy body will not live on earth or in normal human body.

Which makes it similar to Simak's "Desertion".