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Since i consider myself to be a wholy self contained biological machine, I dont consider there would be any difference whatsoever if electrical impulses that currently power my conciousness do so on a biological or non biological substrate.

I'll go a step further and say a purpose designed non biological substrate will do a better job than my biological one. It will last longer, have better failsafes ie backups and RAID style parity bit checkers. The sensory inputs will no longer be constrained by my current biological limitations.

I cant see boredom as a factor since i will be able to chose between real world real time sensory inputs, Virtual world immersions, both self designed and those designed by others (think books and TV but with full and seamless sensory immersion) and an ability to load and run the direct experience sets of others in the hive mind.

Imagine for example that what you percieve as reality is in fact my experience set borrowed from the hives experience set collective running as direct experience in your own nodes conciousness space.

As a twist add time travel to this scenario. Let the hive mind go back and start uploading the full experience sets of all the people currently dead.

Perhaps today you might sample as a full immersion a day in the life of George Washington. or a week or a month or even the full dataset.

Walk the streets of ancient rome, smelling the smells, feeling what that person felt

<blockquote data-quote="mike" data-source="post: 209010" data-attributes="member: 9271">Since i consider myself to be a wholy self contained biological machine, I dont consider there would be any difference whatsoever if electrical impulses that currently power my conciousness do so on a biological or non biological substrate.&nbsp;I&#039;ll go a step further and say a purpose designed non biological substrate will do a better job than my biological one. It will last longer, have better failsafes ie backups and RAID style parity bit checkers. The sensory inputs will no longer be constrained by my current biological limitations.&nbsp;I cant see boredom as a factor since i will be able to chose between real world real time sensory inputs, Virtual world immersions, both self designed and those designed by others (think books and TV but with full and seamless sensory immersion) and an ability to load and run the direct experience sets of others in the hive mind.&nbsp;Imagine for example that what you percieve as reality is in fact my experience set borrowed from the hives experience set collective running as direct experience in your own nodes conciousness space.&nbsp;As a twist add time travel to this scenario. Let the hive mind go back and start uploading the full experience sets of all the people currently dead.&nbsp;Perhaps today you might sample as a&nbsp; full immersion&nbsp; a day in the life of George Washington. or a week or a month or even the full dataset.&nbsp;Walk the streets of ancient rome, smelling the smells, feeling what that person felt</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mike, post: 209010, member: 9271"] Since i consider myself to be a wholy self contained biological machine, I dont consider there would be any difference whatsoever if electrical impulses that currently power my conciousness do so on a biological or non biological substrate. I'll go a step further and say a purpose designed non biological substrate will do a better job than my biological one. It will last longer, have better failsafes ie backups and RAID style parity bit checkers. The sensory inputs will no longer be constrained by my current biological limitations. I cant see boredom as a factor since i will be able to chose between real world real time sensory inputs, Virtual world immersions, both self designed and those designed by others (think books and TV but with full and seamless sensory immersion) and an ability to load and run the direct experience sets of others in the hive mind. Imagine for example that what you percieve as reality is in fact [I]my[/I] experience set borrowed from the hives experience set collective running as direct experience in your own nodes conciousness space. As a twist add time travel to this scenario. Let the hive mind go back and start uploading the full experience sets of all the people currently dead. Perhaps today you might sample as a full immersion a day in the life of George Washington. or a week or a month or even the full dataset. Walk the streets of ancient rome, smelling the smells, feeling what that person felt [/QUOTE]

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