Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

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pmfan57 <jwragusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> As stated above, make it fast-acting enough that no experiential
>> part of me is lost and I'd be okay with it.  Until/unless
>> somebody demonstrates that some other part of me -- the
>> hypothetical soul -- is lost in the process anyway.
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> A copy of you is just that.  Even if it thinks it's you.

That's opinion, not fact.  Other people may have different opinions.

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> You don't need hypothetical soul (like a hypothetical James
> Brown).  If you die, you die.  Doesn't matter whether a copy (even
> a "perfect" copy) lives on.  Some new person will be living "your"
> life, thinking he's you.  You don't need the concept of soul to
> have a concept of a self aware consciousness that exists, and at
> some point ceases to.

The question is, when does it cease, and when doesn't it?  More
plainly, what is (and isn't) death?

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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