X-Message-Number: 14687 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:16:57 -0700 From: Lee Corbin <> Subject: Re: same or not same? In Message #14664 www.IGGY.net (KC Homes) wrote: >Same, by default, requires identical characteristics of an >object, human being, etc. When two "same" people are sitting >across from one another - they are not "same," as they are >*across* from each other. Their characteristics are totally >different (e.g. air pressure in their particular location is >different... But you are the same person that you were yesterday, and probably last year, unless your life circumstances have greatly changed. Many easy thought-experiments convince one that he or she is not a physical object; it seems to be best to regard ourselves as pattern. In this way, you need not fear teleporting, for example, in which the particular atoms physically making you up don't remain the same ones. Likewise plagiarism laws deem two books by different authors to be the same, regardless of bindings, glue, or even punctuation so long as the ideas are too similar to be a coincidence. The bottom line is that if you wish the "same" person that you are now to be re-animated, you should surrender such a tight standard for sameness. Lee Corbin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=14687