Wayne wrote:
"What if a technique is found to upload the contents of the brain to a piece of hardware which still allows us to think and function in our thoughts as we do now? What happens then? We load ourselves into a quantum computer and head for the stars without a single vestige of our former physical selves. What's running in the computer?

You say a program simulating our thoughts, others would say a soul. I say, "What's the difference?"


The difference is murder: Seriously!

If I transfer my being to a machine I must murder my original body. If I copy my being to a machine I have a clone that might decide to it should have equal access my checking account and my wife.

DA Morgan