X-Message-Number: 32880 References: <> Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:19:56 -0500 Subject: Re: CryoNet #32861 - #32865 From: Freeposity <> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 4:00 AM, CryoNet <> wrote: > One comment on the debate over uploading. I agree entirely with Keith's > premise that a person could be uploaded in a smooth and reversible manner > and thus it's philosophically impractical to say the uploaded personality is > not the same being. However, Keith's comment "it's only a slight upgrade of > what's needed to get you back from the frozen state" brings to mind other > consequences. One complication of philosophical discussions of cryonics is > that if one has the technology to rebuild a person from scanning their > frozen remains, one could readily make multiple copies of that person. If, > in the future, a particular copy were killed, the other instances of that > person would continue. The problem with copies is twofold : how do you know > if you're the original What does it matter? If you found out today that you're a duplicate are you going to terminate your life or live it? -- Money isn't speech. A Corporation isn't a person. http://www.movetoamend.org/ Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=32880