The vulnerability of the bio body is the source of most threats to its existence.<\/p>\n
We have looked at the question of uploading the identity by uploading the memory contents, on the assumption that the identity is contained in the memories. I believe this assumption has been proved to be almost certainly wrong.<\/p>\n
What we are concentrating on is the identity as the viewer of its perceptions, the centroid or locus of perception.<\/p>\n
It is the fixed reference point. And the locus of perception is always Here, and it is always Now. This is abbreviated here to 0,0.<\/p>\n
What more logical place to find the identity than where it considers Here and Now \u2013 its residence in Space Time.<\/p>\n
It would surely be illogical to start searching for the identity where it considers to be Somewhere Else or in Another Time.<\/p>\n
We considered the fact that the human being accesses the outside world through its senses, and that its information processing system is able to present that information as being \u201cexternal.\u201d A hand is pricked with a pin. The sensory information \u2013 a stream of neural impulses, all essentially identical \u2014 progress to the upper brain where the pattern is read and the sensation of pain is felt. That sensation, however, is projected or mapped onto the exact point it originated from.<\/p>\n
One feels the pain at the place the neural disturbance came from. It is an illusion \u2014 a very useful illusion.<\/p>\n
In the long slow progress of evolution from a single cell to the human organism, and to the logical next step \u2014 the \u201candroid\u201d (we must find a better word) \u2013 this mapping function must be one of the most vital survival strategies. If the predator is gnawing at your tail, it\u2019s smart to know where the pain is coming from.<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t just structure that evolved, but \u201csmarts\u201d too\u2026 smarter systems.<\/p>\n
Each sensory channel conveys not just sensory information but information regarding where it came from. Like a set of outgoing information vectors. But there is also a complementary set of incoming vectors. The array of sensory vectors from visual, audible, tactile, and so on, all converge on one location \u2013 a locus of perception. And the channels cross-correlate. The hand is pricked \u2013 we immediately look at the place the pain came from. And\u2026 one can \u201cfollow one\u2019s nose\u201d to see where the barbecue is. <\/p>\n
Dr Shu can use both his left hand and arm; and his right hand and arm in coordination to lift up the $22M Ming vase he is in the process of stealing.<\/p>\n
Left\/right coordination \u2014 so obvious and simple it gets overlooked.<\/p>\n