Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

On Jun 1, 4:51=A0am, wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
> In article
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>,pmfan57<jwrag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
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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. =A0Until/unless
> >> somebody demonstrates that some other part of me -- the
> >> hypothetical soul -- is lost in the process anyway.
>
> > A copy of you is just that. =A0Even if it thinks it's you.
>
> That's opinion, not fact. =A0Other people may have different opinions.
>
> [ ... ]
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> > You don't need hypothetical soul (like a hypothetical James
> > Brown). =A0If you die, you die. =A0Doesn't matter whether a copy (even
> > a "perfect" copy) lives on. =A0Some new person will be living "your"
> > life, thinking he's you. =A0You 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? =A0More
> plainly, what is (and isn't) death?
>
> --
> William December Starr <wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>

If a person dies and a thousand years from now someone recreates a
copy of that person, with all his memories (like in the Fabulous
Riverboat), by your logic that person never really died.  Is that what
you believe?  If not, how soon need the copy be made for the original
never to have died?