MNORTON@rca.COM (07/17/87)
Concerning the AP story on attaining immortality via computers, readers of AIList intrested in thinking more about this may wish to read Fredrick Pohl's new book, "Annals of the Heechee", the forth book in the series which began with "Gateway." Mr. Pohl explores some of the implications of computer subsumption of consciousness, which he calls 'vastening' in the story. Some of the topics touched on include altered preception of reality, differing time-rates between biologicals and computers, and non-corporeal being. Mark J. Norton, RCA Advanced Technology Laboratories, AI Lab.
rapaport@sunybcs.UUCP (William J. Rapaport) (07/20/87)
In article <8707200504.AA05729@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> MNORTON@rca.COM writes: > >Concerning the AP story on attaining immortality via computers, readers >of AIList intrested in thinking more about this may wish to read ... ... or Justin Leiber's _Beyond Rejection_. Leiber is a philosopher and also the son of SF writer Fritz Leiber. The novel is about a society in which brain tapes are made and installed in new bodies; the minds tend to reject the bodies.