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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 01:38:03 EST
Subject: Re: CryoNet #25060 soul

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> (Destructive) uploaders will never be 
> reanimated; what most uniquely defines them will be destroyed, 
> never to exist again. 


Explain me why scanning a brain at molecular level destroy what you call 
soul?

Meanwhile, the qualia experiencer of the CPU > 
> will bear no useful connection to the uploaded individuals. Quite 
> the contrary, the CPU will merely apply rules to a list of bits. 

A brain apply chemical rules to atoms.

> That the list of bits could be construed to encode a brain program 
> is not useful from the point of view of personal survival. The bits 
> themselves have no objective meaning and don't experience anything--
> 
atoms neither.
You are clearly locked in the childish idea that there must be something 
beyond plain brain biochemical functions. There is nothing such.
You have not answered my question on medrol.

Yvan Bozzonetti.


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