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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 17:15:02 -0500
Subject: Re: CryoNet #32853 - #32856
From: Freeposity <>

>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).


This condescension is really ugly.




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