[ExI] Mind Uploading article in Wikipedia
John K Clark
jonkc at bellsouth.net
Mon Apr 6 16:19:55 UTC 2009
"Stathis Papaioannou" <stathisp at gmail.com>
> not only will some claim "it won't really be me" if the soul is magically
> duplicated, they will claim the same thing even if the consciousness
> (whatever that may or may not be) is magically duplicated.
Then I am not me, whatever the hell that means. Some people on this list
have some silly ideas, but not THAT silly.
> The point I am making is that it isn't a belief in vitalism, souls or even
> consciousness that leads to this position. There are people on this list
> who are 100% materialist and still say "it won't really be me".
If they are 100% materialist and believe that then they are also 100%
illogical.
John K Clark
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