X-Message-Number: 32854
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:12:49 -0700 (PDT)
From: david pizer <>
Subject: open letter to Robert Ettinger

Robert

'Been reading your posts about why uploading is not survival of a person.


You are still (after all these years) the smartest person in cryonics in an 
all-around way. (and by the way, unsurpassed in ethics and morality also).  I 
think the point that uploading lovers are missing is that - yes information can 
someday be loaded into a computer that mimics a natural person, but - no that 
thing is NOT the person that it mimics.


You are arguing about what it is that makes a person a person, they are arguing 
that uploading will be able to create something that seems like a person. 


Having existed with Uploading Lovers (heck some of them are even my friends) for
many years now, I believe they are as firmly entrenched in their beliefs as 
traditional religious persons believe that their souls are going to Heaven after
death here on Earth (I have some of these friends too and I hope they are 
right, but I am not canceling my arrangements for cryonics suspension at legal 
death). 

Best regards,

David Pizer

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