X-Message-Number: 8006
From:  (Thomas Donaldson)
Subject: re:my.last.message
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 1997 00:45:28 -0800 (PST)

Hi again!

One other point I forgot to mention. It will sound familiar to those who
heard my talk at Alcor this year.

If (say) our thalamus does play a big role in our consciousness, and at the
same time contains no special information, then we will know that we can
revive someone even if their thalamus has somehow been destroyed --- and
revive them so that they will be THEMSELVES. That's one real point behind 
working out just how our brains work: both to find out just what destruction
will destroy major information to the degree that we can at best revive
someone as a copy (or more happily, what will NOT), and the other point is
to understand how to fix it --- necessary whatever technology you use to
do the fixing.

I really don't want any part of my brain destroyed, and if we all work hard
and support the necessary research, at least the lucky ones among us will
be suspended without any destruction in their brains at all. But then we
know that some of us will not be so lucky --- so to help them (and maybe
it will be you, you know) we still want to reach that understanding of how
we work.

			Long long life,

				Thomas Donaldson 

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