X-Message-Number: 25227 Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 17:53:55 -0800 Subject: Quale Extensions From: <> Dear Robert: You wrote: "But I have offered such an alternative--the overlap/continuity requirement. I postulate (and as far as I can see, current physics allows it) that there is no film-frame universe, but rather every physical system and event is spread out, with extension in space and time. Thus I overlap, and can at least partly identify with, my predecessors and successors or continuers--but not with disjoint copies, however similar otherwise." This is the core (but not entirety) of my own way of stating survival: that the changes of the brain do not destroy its capacity for experiencing qualia, which assures personal survival. I do think, the advantage of this terminology, is that it allows me to easily explain why the me of last night is the me of today, even though, during the night, I did not experience anything (if I did not dream). I think it might be more difficult with your terminology. Best Regards, Richard B. R. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25227