X-Message-Number: 18049 From: "estropico >" <> Subject: Re: Did you survive? Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 11:48:23 +0000 >Message #18041 >Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:57:13 -0500 >From: david pizer <> >Subject: Did you survive? >MY hunch is that *I* am a hunk of a very specific brain, my brain. I > >agree that if a duplicate of the information about the construction of > >my brain were created into a brand new brain, the new brain would > >*think* it was me. > > But I don't know if it would *be* me? > >These are questions that we are probably going to need a philosophical >breakthrough in thinking on the level of "I think, therefore I am." My istinctive, semi-serious reaction to reading the above was: "I think I am me, therefore I am me" Right or wrong, it could become the mantra of the uploaded... Fabio ********************************************************** Estropico: the Italian transhumanist/extropian website. http://utenti.tripod.it/estropico ********************************************************** _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=18049