X-Message-Number: 9209 Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 09:51:18 -0500 From: Rafi Haftka <> Subject: Memory and identity - deliberate change I thank everybody who reacted to my post about how I retain very few memories of my past and the relation to who I will be. I learned a lot from these posts, but one point I tried to make was overlooked, so I will clarify it: I hope to be alive in the year 11998, and: 1. While I may be ABLE to access some of my present memories, I expect that I will not want to access them. 2. The implicit memories that guide my everyday behavior are likely to have almost zero content from the 20th century. 3. I expect to deliberately change my personality (by changing some of my genes, if I am still protoplasm based) to get rid of traits I do not like in myself. For example, I plan to make myself more outgoing. 4. I expect to experiment with a variety of physical appearances, and I expect that I will not even remember how I look today. Am I contemplating murder? Should I feel guilty about it? Rafi Haftka P.S. I have been a confirmed Cryonicist for more than 25 years, and I am looking forward to successful suspension and revival in some form or another. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Raphael(Rafi) T. Haftka < > University of Florida Phone: (352)-392-9595 Department of Aerospace Engineering, Fax: (352)-392-7303 Mechanics and Engineering Science http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~haftka/ Gainesville, FL 32611-6250 (beware, a lot of graphics!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check the web page of the International Society of Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization (ISSMO) at http://www.aero.ufl.edu/~issmo/ for details about the MicroAV competition! Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9209