X-Message-Number: 32545 From: Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2010 22:46:08 EDT Subject: Brook Norton Brook Norton's thesis that survival is meaningless has as usual some good thoughts, but if we want accuracy we need to be careful. With reasonable choice of allowable language, it is certainly true that "you" or any object or system can properly be regarded as surviving in certain ways and to certain degrees. This is observable. The problem again is not what you want, but what you ought to want based on logic and biology. It's complicated and subtle, and satisfaction is not guaranteed, but that's why I wrote Youniverse Robert Ettinger Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32545