X-Message-Number: 25262 From: "Basie" <> Subject: Re: Thomas & Continuation Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2004 20:05:47 -0500 "As I have proven in past messages, following a blueprint won't give you the original---it will give you a copy. If you doubt this, then all you have to do is follow the blueprint to building something that already exists. Once you conduct this experiment, you will clearly see that two things exist, and not one; therefore, these two things that exist are not the same thing." Your brain makes copies of the original memories when ever you recall something. The recalled memories are then stored. Thus if your argument holds true we only think we are the same person. At any time we are only the instance of what we could have been. Thus Cryonics boils down to a simple survival instinct and nothing else. Basie Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25262