Re: How To Live In A Simulation

From: Spike Jones (spike66@attglobal.net)
Date: Mon Mar 19 2001 - 20:41:14 MST


> >>> Spike Jones <spike66@attglobal.net> 03/19/01 06:17am >>>
> We should have something like
> a Borg that you check into when you want and check
> back out of when you want.

Christopher Barton wrote:

> With a SysOp in place to stop people running amok, then this is fine. That feeling though, pleasurable though it is, can be rather dangerous. The loss of individuality encompasses the loss of responsibility and moral sense.

Yes. My comments are restricted to the pre-nano pre-singularity pre-
upload era. Havent a clue after that.

> Don't you find that physical presence is an important part of the group feeling, and that it would be lacking in the situation you described? James

Ja, probably. Also stir in a healthy dose of youthful exuberance
and raging hormones and that pretty much explains that wonderful
endorphne rush of being in a band. {8^D spike



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