X-Message-Number: 20916 Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 22:12:15 -0500 From: Francois <> Subject: Reply to Robert Ettinger concerning the definition of identical copy This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --Boundary_(ID_VlwI1CB+XkTcHAJg8DR5qQ) Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I would define identical copies of an individual as copies who do not differ from each other by a greater ammount than the difference between an individual at time A and the same individual at time A+1 second. There is no real need to be more exact than that. After all, every time we go to sleep, the person waking up in the morning has gone through substantial time intervals where no self awareness existed. Yet we still feel a "continuity" of self. So a copy exact to that degree can be considered an identical copy. Francois --------------------------------------------------------------------- No lifespan shorter than eternity is acceptable --------------------------------------------------------------------- --Boundary_(ID_VlwI1CB+XkTcHAJg8DR5qQ) Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=20916