<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">John K Clark</b> <<a href="mailto:jonkc@att.net">jonkc@att.net</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;">
"Lee Corbin" <<a href="mailto:lcorbin@rawbw.com">lcorbin@rawbw.com</a>><br><br>> Yes. Now, would you explain the difference between (A) the Alien granting<br>> your request and (B) the alien killing you, and then creating an IQ 12,000
<br>> entity that the alien names Isador which just so happens to have<br>> incredibly complete biographical information about you?<br><br>The difference is that in case (A) there is a living being that remembers<br>
being me, and that's all you could ask for of survival; in case (B) there is<br>not.<br></blockquote></div><br>I would have said A and B are equivalent, provided the biographical information is of a first person form, which "incredibly complete" seems to imply.
<br><br>Stathis Papaioannou<br>