Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now

Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by bd on Sunday January 11, 2009 @01:58AM (#428930)

I meant - "you would want to experience" - as in you personally (you = one human being).

Edit: Sorry, I corrected my older comment, it was supposed to say "sensors and effectors far away from brain".

You cannot effectively "be present" [1] at the remote world if your perceive-think-act loop would be spread over large distance.

So even if you would be in silico, you would still need to transfer your actual hardware, not just dumb robots.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence_%28telepresence%29

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gravitycop on Sunday January 11, 2009 @02:34AM (#428965)

(you = one human being)

If, as I originally posited, humans were to evolve into in silico entities, then human beings (= naked apes) would not exist, would they (other than, perhaps, as specimens on display in zoos)?

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Re:Why I thought we'd all be living in space by now by gravitycop on Sunday January 11, 2009 @02:15AM (#428947)

What I meant by in silico was existence in computer hardware. Sending 100 lbs of computer+powersupply there means being there, without being spread telepresently over large distances.

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