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From: polard@fortune.UUCP (Henry Polard)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Is it live or is it Memorex?
Message-ID: <5566@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Sep-85 12:11:25 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 20 12:11:25 1985
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In article <5324@mit-eddie.UUCP> nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) writes:
>> From: Don.Provan@CMU-CS-A
>> i don't care how many ra81's of data you have on me, and i don't care
>> how good you are at reconstructing me: once i'm dead, i'm dead.  you
>> can make copies of me until you're blue in the face, but *i*'ll still
>> be dead.
>But for all you know, every time you go to sleep, someone could be
>killing you and then replacing you with a copy of you, and you'd *never*
>notice the difference!  So what difference does it make?  None at all!
Some food for thought: 
	Some philosophies (notably some schools of Buddhism) 
claim that we die and are reborn each instant, and that the process of going 
from one moment to the next is essentially the same as that of going from one 
life to the next.
-- 
Henry Polard (You bring the flames - I'll bring the marshmallows.)
{ihnp4,cbosgd,amd}!fortune!polard
N.B: The words in this posting do not necessarily express the opinions
of me, my employer, or any AI project.