tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454474035487094108.post4632389197906229822..comments2024-03-21T03:11:48.622-04:00Comments on Mindfiles, Mindware and Mindclones: 16. WHAT IF MINDCLONES OUTVOTE US AND TAKE OVER?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454474035487094108.post-51290953591167639582010-07-28T22:30:41.084-04:002010-07-28T22:30:41.084-04:00At the outset, cyberpersons who are eligible for r...At the outset, cyberpersons who are eligible for rights as citizens on the basis of being the continuations of (past or biostasis-related) biological lives might be an extremely small minority, appearing to have little influence as voters. But...<br /><br />(1) with vastly accelerated speeds of thought and no need to sleep, those cyberpersons might soon be vigorous and omnipresent participants in all kinds of Internet discussions (particularly in virtual realities), outspeaking and outpublishing their biological-substrate fellow citizens in ways far out of proportion to their actual numbers.<br /><br />(2) Large shifts in voting population might later take place as the qualities of cyberlife and the other advantages of being there began to outweigh continuing to have biological-substates. A wholesale emigration into cyberspace might take place.<br /><br />This might be further acccelerated by any large inequities of income. "Going into cyberspace" would eliminate even the needs for physical food and shelter. Those who placed great value on their physical possessions and the ego-trip of being among the "economically advantaged" might be left behind as a small voting minority.<br /><br />Literally a "thunderclap" reversal of voting power might take place, if this kind of switch in lifestyles took place. (We have a fascinating next-few-decades coming up!)Boundlesslifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07309490026393504756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454474035487094108.post-20448737412899494722010-07-28T22:15:42.589-04:002010-07-28T22:15:42.589-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Boundlesslifehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07309490026393504756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454474035487094108.post-56826400320418722262010-07-25T21:04:19.958-04:002010-07-25T21:04:19.958-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16384464120149476437noreply@blogger.com