[extropy-chat] Let's try this again.

[Jef Allbright]

On 5/8/06, A B <austriaaugust at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
> John wrote:
> "Young? The idea that matter uniquely determines what we are is as old as
> the
> hills, but discoveries in science made about 90 years ago proves this can
> not possibly be true."...
>
> When I wrote "young", I was referring to this particular (new) conclusion
> which is a mere few weeks old, as far as I can tell. I doubt any philosopher
> from the past has stood before his peers and claimed with a straight face:
> "Though I appear to you to be alive, I actually died yesterday."
>
>

Jeffrey -

This topic is thousands of years old.  For examples, google "Ship of
Theseus."<http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-13,GGGL:en&q=%2522ship+of+theseus%2522>

- Jef
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