Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 12:58:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Lynch <rw_lynch at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fw: NYT reviews 'Mind Catcher'
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Been done before.  John Barnes's novel "Mother of
Storms" and the X-Files episode "Kill Switch" to name
just two.

Rich Lynch
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--- ronkean at juno.com wrote:
>
> --------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Eugen Leitl
> Here is a book review from the NY Times:
>
> August 7, 2002
> A Boy's Essence Uploaded and Adrift in Cyberspace
> By JIM HOLT
>
> Could a human mind enter a computer? It seems
> unlikely
> at first blush. After all, the fastest supercomputer
> today is a thousandth as fast as the brain of Homo
> sapiens. But what about the Internet? As it happens,
> the Internet's total unused computational power
> outstrips that of the human brain. If cyberspace
> were
> organized into a giant neural computer — that is, a
> computer that mimicked networks of brain cells — one
> could in theory "upload" a person's mental software
> into it: thoughts, feelings, memories, the works.
> Would cyberspace then be the arena of that person's
> consciousness, of his very soul?
>
> That is the metaphysical question at the heart of
> John
> Darnton's new thriller, "Mind Catcher."

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