[ExI] Let's play What If.

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:32 AM, Damien Broderick <thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:

> But wait, cries Stathis--this is *already* the case; you are being replaced
> atom by atom, and your chance of dying from the process is not just 1 in a
> million or 1 in 66,000, but 1 in 1! How do you feel about *that,* cupcake?
> To which I reply: I feel like shit about it, always have. But what's my
> alternative? Kill myself now to avoid the inevitable pain, or just get
> reconciled to it while doing what I can to advance research to put an end to
> such an atrocity?

I don't consider the natural atom by atom replacement death, so to be
consistent I don't consider destructive copying by artificial means
death either. In a sentence that's the whole argument.


-- 
Stathis Papaioannou