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Re: opposite of relativistic time contraction

by Howard Brazee <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Mar 17, 2008 at 05:00 PM

In article <1205782813@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Wayne Throop) 
wrote:

> Does freezing and thawing preserve identity?
> How about living through many years of trans****t; food will end up
> replacing lots of your mass; are you the same person?  The atoms in
> the food are just re-arranged to fit into a template by digestion and
> incor****ation into tissue, so is that different than having the template
> be more etherial (and thus robust) than just accreting onto pre-existing
> gelled goo?

I'm not the same person I was as a child.


Philip Jose Farmer had a fun take on this he added on to _Time's Last 
Gift_, but I don't believe it.
 




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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-14 14:54:25 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-15 00:25:40 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-14 20:48:10 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-15 12:07:17 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-16 00:57:10 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-15 18:56:43 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-16 02:40:14 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-16 09:35:05 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-17 01:34:10 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-17 09:30:48 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-17 10:30:04 
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jdnicoll@[EMAIL PROTECTED  2008-03-17 17:58:15 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-18 00:18:18 
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IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMA  2008-03-17 10:00:23 
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IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMA  2008-03-17 12:25:42 
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IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMA  2008-03-17 13:49:53 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-15 04:26:21 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-15 11:09:06 
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Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-03-15 09:42:17 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-15 13:27:54 
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Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-03-16 09:52:22 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-15 11:15:29 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-03-16 14:25:59 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-17 01:37:46 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-03-16 20:55:10 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-17 08:20:44 
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Greg Egan <gregegan@[E  2008-03-16 21:37:25 
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Tim Little <tim@[EMAIL  2008-03-17 08:31:11 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-17 10:10:48 
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Greg Egan <gregegan@[E  2008-03-17 18:43:59 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-16 01:39:13 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-16 02:05:31 
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David Mitchell <david@  2008-03-16 18:26:19 
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IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMA  2008-03-17 08:38:08 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-17 12:09:20 
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Erik Max Francis <max@  2008-03-20 23:44:07 
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IsaacKuo <mechdan@[EMA  2008-03-17 12:35:02 
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Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-03-18 00:16:53 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-17 18:35:43 
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Ben Crowell <crowell07  2008-03-17 12:50:17 
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Bryan Derksen <bryan.d  2008-03-18 00:09:11 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-17 18:50:19 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-17 19:35:46 
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throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]  2008-03-17 19:40:13 
Re: opposite of relativistic time contraction
Howard Brazee <howard@  2008-03-17 17:00:37 

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