<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russell Wallace</b> <<a href="mailto:russell.wallace@gmail.com">russell.wallace@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<span class="q">On 11/5/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">david ish shalom</b> <<a href="mailto:davidishalom1@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">davidishalom1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
<br></span><div><span class="q"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p dir="ltr" style="text-align: left; direction: ltr;"><b>Now as for<span> </span>your <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"</span><font size="2"><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255) none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;">
if you haven't got a single
person on extropy-chat of all places to believe this literally constitutes personal survival, you won't get anyone
anywhere to believe it :)</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">" </span>frankly, I have got some positive personal
messages in the last two days,<span> </span>after
posting here, which is encouraging</font></b><font size="2"> <b>enough.</b></font></p></blockquote></span></div></blockquote><div><br>Now, now, now.. At the risk of opening myself up to lord knows what objections I am willing to go on record as stating that info-identity is a legitimate process of preserving oneself. Most people considering "identity" are doing so in an information constrained world (
i.e. it is impossible to copy oneself). But this will not always be the case. A copy of information imprinted on 3 lbs of wet matter will not always be "unique".<br><br>So David's choice of selling point aside one has to deal with 1 = 1 = 1... and you can apply it to the left of or to the right of as selling points but you still have to get back to "is it identical". I have no problem with people treating copies of Robert as if they were Robert.
<br><br>I would like to hear comments from those who would object to Robert surrogates (copies) filling in for me. In particular I would like to know *who* would be so presumptuous as to claim knowing when I have been replaced by one of my copies and how they would know such.
<br><br>1 = 1 = 1 = 1 (be it on the left or the right)<br><br>R.<br></div></div><br>