Re: David Gerrold - War with the Cthorr

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pmfan57 <jwragusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> wdst...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
>> pmfan57<jwrag...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> 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.
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>> The question is, when does it cease, and when doesn't it?  More
>> plainly, what is (and isn't) death?
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> 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?

I'd say that, reduced to its simplest terms, time in which nothing
relevant to the scenario happens doesn't count.  It's like suspended
animation.

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William December Starr <wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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