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  "thread": {
    "id": 3373,
    "subject": "uploading (was Re: Consensus? and Question)",
    "messages": 1,
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    "first": "2002-07-20T16:16:25+00:00",
    "last": "2002-07-20T16:16:25+00:00"
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  "messages": [
    {
      "message_id": "<urth-v0207-1446@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "David DiGiacomo",
        "address": "david at slack.com"
      },
      "date": "2002-07-20T16:16:25+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: uploading (was Re: Consensus? and Question)",
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          "text": "Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 11:31:30 -0500\nSubject: Re: (urth) Consensus? and Question\nFrom: Adam Stephanides <adamsteph at earthlink.net>\n\n(Although now that I think about it, while the downloading of AIs into\nliving brains through the eye is \"plausible\" in a skiffy sort of way, it's\ngosh-darn hard to see how it could go the other way.  Eyes don't broadcast,\nafter all; and I don't see how a computer, just by looking into someone's\neye, could learn enough about the brain's neural connections to upload a\npersonality fragment with its attached memories.)"
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          "text": "This bothered me too, and I think Wolfe could have thrown in a word of\nexposition, but I have an idea.\n\nIn our time, evoked potentials are the most practical way to detect\nthoughts from EEG signals.  Perhaps the Holy Hues stimulate evoked\npotentials, which are detected by an unseen and unmentioned sensor inside\nthe terminal.\n\n(Have you all heard of the term \"fanwank\"?)"
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