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From: baba@flairvax.UUCP (Baba ROM DOS)
Newsgroups: net.philosophy
Subject: Re: Sotware vs. "meat"
Message-ID: <832@flairvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Nov-84 01:58:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov 28 01:58:33 1984
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(Sotware.  Is that a new euphemism for booze?)

>From: mwm@ea.UUCP
> Now, read the last line from me carefully: "I hope to be uploaded to
> *something* ... ." Key word: "something." I claim that "I" can function on
> other hardware, be it meat, silicon, plasma, or whatever. [I also claim I
> can *prove* that that can happen, barring dualism!] Therefore, I can change
> "bodies" - so I am not a body, any more than I am a house. Both are things
> that "I" temporarily make use of. Therefore, I "have" a body, in the same
> manner that I "have" a house.
>					less-than-mike

Well, thank goodness someone has solved the enigma of personal identity. ;-)

Seriously, granting for the sake of the discussion that the state and dynamics
of the brain are what define individual awareness (or whatever *your* "I" is),
and that a reproduction of the same state and functionality is possible in
some other medium, isn't your current fleshmobile still going to die, and 
isn't your current "I" still going to experience that death, regardless of 
whether or not your soul-appliance is infected with something that will 
generate net.news?

					Approximately-Baba