X-Message-Number: 25198 Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 13:08:47 -0500 From: John Clark <> Subject: Re: CryoNet #25190 - #25195 References: <> Wrote: > Thomas Donaldson asks what I mean by the physical continuity > criterion of survival. It means the system never undergoes a > change so sudden or so drastic that it would be fatal And being fatal means loss of identity and loss of identity means loss of continuity and loss of continuity means being fatal. Round and round we go. And "sudden" or "drastic" are very fuzzy words to be the foundation for a theory of identity. If I blow myself up with dynamite the atoms in my body will not change much from one picosecond to the next and that time frame is as good as any other, the very tiny changes in that very short time are not fatal. John K Clark Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25198