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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/26/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Heartland</b> <<a href="mailto:velvethum@hotmail.com">velvethum@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span></div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Stathis Papaioannou:<br>"The implication of this is that I don't have to wait zillions of years for
<br>the one "correct" configuration that will implement my brain, because at<br>least one of the infinite possible configurations will come up somewhere<br>every moment. You're guaranteed of instant continuation after death, and in
<br>fact your next conscious moment will most likely be generated by this<br>mechanism."<br><br>There is no significant difference *in type* between your conscious experience and<br>a conscious experience of someone else so as long as there exists someone who
<br>remains conscious after you die, you would have to conclude that you'd be<br>guaranteed an instant continuation after death, no?</blockquote>
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<div>No: there are very specific criteria for my continuation from moment to moment without subjective discontinuity. That is, I survive to the next moment if there exists at least one entity with my memories, feelings, sense of personal identity etc. up to the present moment. I survive with partial memory loss if the same criteria are met, but relating to one of my earlier moments.
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<div>Stathis Papaioannou<br> </div>